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Helcar (also spelled Helkar[1]) was the name of a great pillar or tower upon which the mighty lamp Illuin sat. It was the counterpart to Ringil which held aloft the other lamp, Ormal.

History[]

Helcar was built in Middle-earth by the Valar to house the northern of the Two Lamps, Illuin. It was destroyed by Melkor in an attack while the Valar rested from their labors. Its collapse ruined a great part of Middle-earth, and waters (probably from Belegaer and the eastern ocean) flowed in. The inland Sea of Helcar formed in the tower's place.[2]

In other versions[]

In the earlier writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, that Helcar had been made by Melko (Melkor), not by the Valar, out of ice, a substance not yet known to the Valar; and so it had melted, in a work of treachery.[3] It was also situated in the south, rather than the north.

Translations[]

Foreign Language Translated name
Amharic ሄልካር
Arabic هيلكار
Armenian Հելկար
Assamese হেলকাৰ
Belarusian Cyrillic Хелкар
Bengali হেলকার
Bulgarian Cyrillic Хелкар
Chinese 赫尔卡
Danish Helkar
Georgian ჰელკარი
German Helkar
Greek Χελκαρ
Gujarati હેલકાર
Hebrew הלקאר
Hindi हेलकार
Japanese ヘルカール
Kannada ಹೆಲ್ಕಾರ್
Kazakh Хелкар (Cyrillic) Xelkar (Latin)
Korean 헬 카르
Kyrgyz Cyrillic Hэлкар
Laotian ຮເລຈະຣ
Macedonian Cyrillic Хелкар
Malayalam ഹെൽകാർ
Marathi हेल्कार
Mongolian Cyrillic Хэлкар
Nepalese हेल्कार
Persian هلکار
Punjabi ਹੇਲਕਰ
Russian Хэлкар
Sanskrit हेल्चर्
Serbian Хелкар (Cyrillic) Helkar (Latin)
Sinhalese හෙල්කාර්
Tajik Cyrillic Ҳелкар
Tamil ஹெல்கார்
Telugu హెల్కార్
Thai เฮลคาร์
Urdu ہیلکار
Ukrainian Cyrillic Хелкар
Uzbek Ҳелкар (Cyrillic) Helkar (Latin)
Yiddish העלקאַר

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