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Arda is a Tolkien reference. Specifically, Arda is the world where the Lord of the Rings series takes place and within the world of Arda the main ocean is called Belegaer, the Sundering Seas or the Great Sea. If we want to continue the Tolkien reference another but less appropriate name would be Ekkaia or one of its variant names like Vaiya or The Encircling Sea for example.
If on the another hand we want to have more than one reference we could always draw on other works of literature like Lovecraft's Cerenerian Sea.
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I think the Sundering Sea has a nice ring to it. (It's quite sundering indeed, without a Ship...)
Plus, it sounds epic when used to give directions: "Go south across the Sundering Sea and walk for three days. Skirt the the ice biome to the east, pass through the fields of Things Generally Found in Fields, and at the top of Mount Long Drops (you'll know it when you see it), pick the blue flower..." etc. etc. My Quest Sage Beard (tm) grew out a centimeter just typing the sentence!
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frelling said
Has anyone of late read The Simorilian? Been a while for myself, but it would be a good source of names also.
Take your pick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.....s_of_water
Which, if we're sticking to the meaning of the names, makes "Belegaer" (The Great Sea) as the possibly over-obvious choice, as vampiresfire originally said. I'm fine with whatever.
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