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Location
The wide ocean between Aman and Middle-earth
Pronunciation
be'legire
Meaning
'great dread'1
Bays and Gulfs
Bay of Balar, Bay of Belfalas, Forochel, Great Gulf, Haven of Umbar
Islands
Enchanted Isles, Himling, Isle of Balar, Isle of Meneltarma, Númenor, Tol Morwen, Tolfalas, Shadowy Isles
Other Names
Endless Sea, Great Sea of the West, High Sea, Sundering Seas, Western Sea

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  • Updated 8 September 2002
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Belegaer

The Great Sea

The Great Sea; the mighty ocean that lay between Middle-earth in the east and Aman in the west, in the midst of which the island kingdom of Númenor lay during the Second Age.


Notes

1

The Elves chose the word gaer ('awe' or 'dread') to describe their fear of the Great Sea when they first encountered it at the end of the Great Journey.

See also...

Arda, Elves, Elves of the Havens, Encircling Sea, Gaerys, Great Sea of the West, Great Water, Sea-elves, Sundering Seas, The Great

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