Eastern Sea

The Eastern Sea,The History of Middle-earth: The Shaping of Middle-earth, "V. The Ambarkanta: Of the Fashion of the World", pg. 239 also known as the East SeaThe History of Middle-earth: The Shaping of Middle-earth, "V. The Ambarkanta: Map IV", pg. 249 and the Rising of the Sun,The History of Middle-earth: The Peoples of Middle-earth, "Tal-Elmar", pg. 423 was a vast and ancient sea in Arda.
==History==
The Eastern Sea came into being after Melkor threw down the Two Lamps which destroyed Almaren and the perfect symmetry of Arda in the chaos and destruction that followed. At one point it is shown on a map of Arda after the destruction Almaren, being simply between the new Endor (Middle-earth) and the new Burnt Land of the Sun. In this very early time, the Eastern Sea is shown as having a very simple C-shape with no connection to the also newly formed Belegaer.The Atlas of Middle-earth, The First Age, The Elder Days, "Introduction"
By the time of the Great Journey of Elves, the maps show the Eastern Sea as a vast curved ocean spanning thousands of miles between Middle-earth's uttermost east and its Hither Lands to the uttermost south, and the mysterious Dark Land, and also extending into a more narrow area between the Dark Land and the Burnt Land of the Sun. At this time, it is not known whether it had any connections to the Belegaer in the south of the world but it did share a connection with the Ekkaia in the north of the world.
After the First Age and the War of Wrath, the maps show the Eastern Sea's part between Middle-earth and the Dark Land now known as the Inner Seas and the Eastern Sea limited to the sea between the Dark Land's eastern coast, and the Burnt Land of the Sun's western coast. The Númenórean mariners were known to have sailed this sea coming from the darkness in the far north of the world where the Inner Seas connected with the Ekkaia. Here, they glimpsed the place of the rising Sun and sailed down to the Nether Darkness in the farthest south of the world.The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Second Age, "Voyages of the Númenóreans"The Silmarillion, Akallabêth (The Downfall of Númenor)
It may be possible that there were paths between the Eastern Sea and Belegaer since it was said that "in the days of the Dark Kings…a man could still walk dry-shod from the Rising of the Sun to the Sea of its setting". However, it is likely, due to the usage of the word "still", that these paths, wherever they were, ceased to exist after the Change of the World.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Oos See
Albanian 	Lindja Deti
Amharic 	ምሥራቅ ባህር
Arabic 	بحر الشرق
Armenian 	Արեւելք ծով
Assamese 	পূব সাগৰ
Azerbaijani 	Şərq Dəniz
Bashkir 	Көнсығыш Диңгеҙ
Basque 	Ekialde Itsaso
Belarusian Cyrillic	Усход Мора
Bengali 	পূর্ব সমুদ্র
Bhojpuri 	पूरबी समुंदर
Bosnian 	Istok More
Breton 	Reter Mor
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Изток Море
Burmese 	အရှေ့ဘက်ပင်လယ်
Cambodian 	សមុទ្រខាងកើត
Catalan 	Est Mar
Cebuano 	Sidlakan Dagat
Chinese 	東 海
Cornish 	Est Mor
Corsican 	Mare Orientale
Croatian 	Istok More
Czech 	Východ Moře
Danish 	Østhavet
Dutch 	Oost Zee
Esperanto 	Orienta Maro
Estonian 	Ida Meri
Filipino 	Silangan Dagat
Finnish 	Itä Meri
French 	Mer de l'Est
Galician 	Leste Mar
Georgian 	აღმოსავლეთი ზღვა
German 	Ostmeer
Greek 	Ανατολή Θάλασσα
Gujarati 	પૂર્વ સમુદ્ર
Haitian Creole 	Lès Lanmè
Hebrew 	מזרח ים
Hindi 	पूर्व सागर
Hungarian 	Kelet Tenger
Indonesian 	Laut Timur
Icelandic 	Austur Sjór
Irish Gaelic 	Oirthear Farraige
Italian 	Mare Orientale/Mare dell'Est
Japanese 	東 海
Javanese 	Wétan Segara
Kannada 	ಪೂರ್ವ ಸಮುದ್ರ
Kazakh Cyrillic 	Шығыс Теңіз (Cyrillic) Şığıs Teñiz (Latin)
Komi 	Асыввыв Саридз
Konkani 	उदेंतेकडलो दर्या
Korean 	동해
Kurdish 	دەریای ڕۆژهەڵات (Sorani) Rojhilat Derya (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Чыгыш деңиз
Laotian 	ທະເລຕາເວັນອອກ
Latin 	Oriens Mare
Latvian 	Austrumi Jūra
Lithuanian 	Rytai Jūra
Luxembourgish 	Osten Mier
Macedonian Cyrillic	Исток Море
Maithili 	पूर्वी समुद्र
Malaysian 	Timur Laut
Maltese 	Lvant Baħar
Malayalam 	ഈസ്റ്റ് സീ
Manx 	Mooir Hiar
Marathi 	पूर्व दिशा समुद्र
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Дорно Тэнгис
Nepalese 	पूर्व समुद्र
Newari 	वंता समुद्र
Norwegian 	Øst Hav
Occitan 	Èst Mar
Pashto 	ختيځ د بحر د
Persian 	دریای شرقی
Polish 	Wschód Morze
Portuguese 	Mar do Leste
Punjabi 	ਪੂਰਬ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ
Romanian 	Est Mare
Romansh 	Ost Mar
Russian 	Восток Море
Sakha 	Илин Байҕал
Samoan 	Sase Sami
Sanskrit 	पूर्वी समुद्र
Scottish Gaelic 	An ear a 'mhuir
Serbian 	Исток Море (Cyrillic) Istok More (Latin)
Shona 	Mabvazuva Gungwa
Sindhi 	اوڀر سمنڊ
Sinhalese 	නැගෙනහිර මුහුද
Slovak 	Východ More
Slovenian 	Vzhod Morje
Somali 	Bari Bad
Spanish 	Mar del Este
Sundanese 	Wétan Sagara
Swahili 	Mashariki Bahari
Swedish 	Öster Hav
Tajik Cyrillic 	Шарқ Баҳр
Tamil 	கிழக்கு கடல்
Tatar 	Көнчыгыш Диңгез
Telugu 	తూర్పు సముద్రం
Thai 	ทิศตะวันออก ทะเล
Tulu 	ಮೂಡಾಯಿ ಕಡಲ್‍
Turkish 	Doğu Deniz
Turkmen 	Gündogar deňzi
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Схід Море
Urdu 	مشرق بحیرہ
Uzbek 	Еаст Сеа (Cyrillic) Sharq Dengiz (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Biển Đông
Welsh 	Môr Dwyrain
Xhosa 	ULwandle lwaseMpuma
Yiddish 	מיזרח ים
== References ==
Category:Seas
Category:Arda
es:Mar Oriental
fr:Mer de l'Est
it:Mare Orientale