
The Sea of Helcar in the Elder Days

Region of Helcar in the Third Age
The Sea of Helcar (Q."ice-cold"; Av. "'elekâra") was a large Inland Sea that was created by the fall of the great ixe-Pillar (or Mountain) of Illuin, covering the greatest part of Central Middle-earth in the Elder days. By the mid Third Age it had dwindled and reduced to a collection of smaller Lakelands, westernmost of them being the Rhûnaer and the Núrnen, easternmost being the Helkanen.