
The Helcaraxë (Q."Ice-claw") or Grinding Ice was an iced narrow or sea-gate, a frozen portion of the northernmost Belegaer that had once conected Aman and northwestern Beleriand or Dor-na-Daerachas."Grinding Ice" referred especially to the portion where the actual landbridge ceased to exist and the only connection between both continents was a more or less interwoven but unstable plate of ice shoals and the immense noise created by these.
Places of Note[]
Passage of fire Tents of Mourning Ungolianths Bloodpools
Regions[]
Cruel hills of ice Frozen Hills Green Land Icelands Narrow Ice Querkaringa Wiruin