Few of the deeds of the Noldor thereafter surpassed that desperate crossing in hardihood or woe. Therefore led by Fingolfin and his sons, and by Finrod and Galadriel the valiant and fair, they dared to pass into the bitterest North and finding no other way they endured at last the terror of the Helcaraxe and the cruel hills of ice. "But the Helcaraxe they deemed impassable" "Such was the Helcaraxe, and there none yet had dared to tread save the Valar only and Ungoliant." At any moment you might be thrown up as a hill of ice is raised up, the ice might split underneath you, you might misjudge as you jump across flowing freezing water - not to mention that the constantly shifting ice makes navigation virtually impossible. Imagine walking for years between continents across a huge, calving glacier in darkness, shrouded by freezing mist. 'Clashing hills of ice and the grinding of ice deep-sunken' - the ice is constantly shifting as well.
'The chill waters of the Encircling Sea and the waves of Belegaer flowed together', 'sea-streams' - there was liquid water flowing through the strait.
Galadriel survived both deadly cold and deadly fire.ĭeadly cold: a place full of 'vast fogs and mists of deadly cold'.
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