Sea of Helcar

The Sea of Helcar (also spelled Helkar) was a great inland sea existing during the First Age.The Atlas of Middle-earth
In the beginning of Arda, the Valar created the Two Lamps to illuminate the world. But the first Dark Lord Melkor made war upon the Valar and cast down the lamps. When they fell, both lamps created gigantic craters where they came to rest. The northernmost crater would become filled with water over time and was named the Sea of Helcar after the pillar upon which the northern lamp had stood.
The Awakening of the Elves occurred at Cuiviénen, a gulf in the Sea of Helcar, and during the Great Journey they passed to the north of it through Wilderland on their way to Beleriand.
After the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age, the Sea of Helcar was drained through the Great Gulf and disappeared from existence.
== Behind the scenes ==
Christopher Tolkien and others have speculated that the Sea of Rhûn might "...be identified with the Sea of Helcar, vastly shrunken" (The War of the Jewels, pg. 174). In The Atlas of Middle-earth, Karen Wynn Fonstad assumed that the lands of Mordor, Khand, and Rhûn lay where the Sea of Helcar had been, and that the Sea of Rhûn and Sea of Núrnen were its remnants. In The Peoples of Middle-earth there are references to the Sea of Rhûn existing in the First Age, but no indication of whether it should be equated with the Sea of Helcar. 
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	See van Helkar
Albanian 	Deti i Helkarut
Arabic 	بحر هلكار
Basque 	Helcar itsasoa
Belarusian Cyrillic	Мора Hелкар
Bengali 	হেলকার সমুদ্র
Bosnian 	Helcarsko more
Breton 	Mor Helcar
Catalan 	Mar d'Helcar
Chinese 	赫爾卡內海
Croatian 	Helcarsko more
Czech 	Helcarské moře
Danish 	Helkarhavet
Esperanto 	Maro de Helkar
Estonian 	Helkari meri
Finnish 	Helcar meri
Frisian 	See fan Helcar
Galician 	Mar de Helcar
Hebrew 	הלקאר ים
Hindi 	हेलकार का समुद्र
Icelandic 	Helcarshaf
Indonesian 	Laut Helcar
Irish Gaelic 	Muir Helcar
Kannada 	ಹೆಲ್ಕಾರ್ ಸಮುದ್ರ
Kazakh 	Һелкар теңізі (Cyrillic) Helkar teñizi (Latin)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Hэлкар деңизи
Latin 	Mare Helcar
Latvian 	Helkar jūra
Lithuanian 	Helkaro jūros
Macedonian Cyrillic	Море на Хелкар
Malaysian 	Laut Helcar
Manx 	Mooir Helkar
Marathi 	हेलकार सागर
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Hелкар тэнгис
Norwegian 	Helcarhavet
Old English 	Helcar Mere
Polish 	Morze Helkar
Portuguese 	Mar de Helcar
Punjabi 	ਹੈਲਕਰ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ
Romanian 	Marea Helcar
Russian 	Море Хэлкар
Scots 	Sea o Helcar
Scottish Gaelic 	Muir Helcar
Slovak 	More Helcar
Slovenian 	Helcareško morje
Somalian 	Badda Helcar
Spanish 	Mar de Helcar
Swahili 	Bahari ya Helcar
Swedish 	Helcarhavet
Tajik Cyrillic 	Баҳри Ҳелкар
Telugu 	హెల్కార్ యొక్క సముద్రం
Thai 	ทะเลเฮลคาร์
Turkish 	Helcar Denizi
Turkmen 	Helcar Deňiz
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Гелкарьке море
Uzbek 	Ҳелкар денгизи (Cyrillic) Helkar dengizi (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Biển Helcar
Welsh 	Môr Helcar
Yiddish 	ים פון העלקאַר
== References ==
Category:Seas
Category:Far Eastern Lands
fr:Mer de Helcar
it:Mare di Helcar
pl:Morze Helkar
ru:Море Хелькар