|Location||In the center of early, symmetrical Middle-earth|
|Description||Large body of water encircling the Isle of
Almaren| The Great Lake lay in the center of Middle-earth when
all the lands and seas were symmetrical. In the middle of the
lake was the Isle of Almaren, the first dwelling of the Valar in
Arda. After the expulsion of Melkor from Arda in the Valian year
1,500, the Valar brought order to the seas and lands and it may
have been at this time that the Great Lake was formed. In the
Valian year 3,450 Melkor came forth in war and cast down the Two
Lamps. Their destruction broke the lands and roiled the seas.
The dwelling of the Valar upon Almaren was utterly destroyed and
the island and the Great Lake disappeared in the tumult. - ↑ 1.0
1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth's Ring,
"Part Two. The Annals of Aman: First section of the Annals of
Aman" - ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The
Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Beginning of Days"