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At the beginning of the [[First Age]], [[Morgoth]] and [[Ungoliant]], escaping from the pursuit of the [[Valar]], fled to Middle-earth across the treacherous wastes of the Helcaraxë. Later, [[Fingolfin]] and his people also made their way into [[Middle-earth]] across the Helcaraxë.<ref name=S9>{{S|9}}</ref>
At the beginning of the [[First Age]], [[Morgoth]] and [[Ungoliant]], escaping from the pursuit of the [[Valar]], fled to Middle-earth across the treacherous wastes of the Helcaraxë. Later, [[Fingolfin]] and his people also made their way into [[Middle-earth]] across the Helcaraxë.<ref name=S9>{{S|9}}</ref>


A name for this region was also the "Narrow Ice", used by [[Bilbo Baggins]] in his poem [[Song of Eärendil]].<ref>{{FR|II1}}</ref>
Helcaraxë was also referred to as the '''Grinding Ice'''.<ref>{{S|13}}</ref><ref>{{S|15}}</ref> Another name for this region was perhaps also the '''Narrow Ice''', used by [[Bilbo Baggins]] in his poem [[Song of Eärendil]].<ref>{{FR|II1}}</ref>


==Etymology==
==Etymology==
The word is composed of [[Quenya]] ''[[helca]]'' "ice" and ''[[caraxe]]'' "jagged hedge of spikes" and means "grinding ice".
''Helcaraxë'' is composed of [[Quenya]] ''[[helca]]'' "ice, ice-cold" and ''[[karakse|caraxe]]'' "jagged hedge of spikes".<ref>{{LR|Etymologies}}, p. 363 (entry [[KARAK|KARAK-]])</ref><ref>[[Helge Kåre Fauskanger]], "[http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/quen-eng.htm Quettaparma Quenyallo]" (accessed 27 March 2011)</ref>
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Fingolfin Leads the Host Across the Helcaraxë by Ted Nasmith.

Helcaraxë (pron. N [ˌhelkaˈrakse], V [ˌxelkaˈrakse]) was the perilous icy wastes that formerly lay between Araman (a region in the north of Aman) and Middle-earth in the far north of Arda.[1] Here met the Encircling Sea and the Belegaer, creating "vast fogs and mists of deathly cold, and the sea-streams were filled with clashing hills of ice and the grinding of ice deep-sunken."[2]

At the beginning of the First Age, Morgoth and Ungoliant, escaping from the pursuit of the Valar, fled to Middle-earth across the treacherous wastes of the Helcaraxë. Later, Fingolfin and his people also made their way into Middle-earth across the Helcaraxë.[2]

Helcaraxë was also referred to as the Grinding Ice.[3][4] Another name for this region was perhaps also the Narrow Ice, used by Bilbo Baggins in his poem Song of Eärendil.[5]

Etymology

Helcaraxë is composed of Quenya helca "ice, ice-cold" and caraxe "jagged hedge of spikes".[6][7]

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