Boromir: "Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring II:10 |
The Eastern Ocean (Q: Rómeneär) or Eastern Sea was the great eastern ocean that separated Eastern Middle-Earth from the New Lands. Its northern and southern waters were part of the even greater ocean called Ekkaia.