Sea of Helcar.

Helcar. ( This name also applies to Helcar, the Northern tower bearing the lamp Illuin.

The Sea of Helcar were created in the end of the Days before Days before the awakening of Iluvatar children. ( Valian Year 3450 ) Then the Valar knew indeed that Morgoth was at work again and they sought for his hiding place. But Melkor trusting in the strength of Utumno and the might of his servants, came forth suddenly to war, and struck the first blow before the Valar were prepared, and he assailed the lights of Illuin and Ormal, and cast down their pillars and broke their lamps. In the overthrow of the mighty pillars lands were broken and seas arose in tumult. And further it is told that Cuiviénen was a bay in the furthest north-east of the Sea of Helcar and that sea " was where before had been the roots of the mountain Helkar before Melkor overthrew it." Many rivers flowed down into the sea from the mountains in the east ( the Orocarni ) and the sound of running water was the first sound the Elves heard when they awoke. But for the Elves there is no returning to the waters of Cuiviénen.

As it is seen in the Silmarillion the waters of Helcar were where once had been the great mountain or pillar Helkar which bore the northern lamp Illuin. The Sea itself derives from the abandoned idear of this mountain or pillar of ice, created, overthrown and melted by the treachery and malice of Morgoth. Yet the mountain and lamp is still present but the cooperation between Morgoth and the Western Gods disappeared.

This mountain bearing the lamp of Illuin, still present in the Silmarillion, was destroyed in the end of Days before Days ( V.Y.3450.) after the Valar at the biding of Manwë held a great feast and Melkor sneaked into the world and suddenly came forth to war and Morgoth assailed the lamps and overthrew the pillars ( mountains ) and lands were broken and seas arose in tumult and the symmetry of the world made by the Valar was marred.

In the end of the First age when the Valar made war upon Morgoth and the shape of the earth was changed the great turmoil's and the drowning of huge landmasses uplifted the land and sea bottoms other places and one of these places were in Palisor and the ocean-floor of Helcar. The uplifting of the sea-floor made it possible for the land of Mordor, Khand, Near Harad and the plains in the east and south beyond the Sea of Rhûn to rise. The last remnants of the Sea of Helcar is the Sea of Rhûn and the Sea of Nurnen.

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