Timeline for Who steered the Grey Ships into the West?
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| Jun 17, 2016 at 10:00 | comment | added | DevSolar | @Marakai: Congratulations for linking up Tolkien with Kennedy Steve in my head... | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 7:55 | comment | added | Marakai | hoo boy, you just introduced ATC to Middle-earth: Aman Traffic Control: "Ulmo Control, this is Ringbearer-3, requesting clearance to depart circles of world."; "Ringbearer-3, this is Ulmo, your are cleared to Tol Eressea, contact Varda approach, good day." | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 7:05 | comment | added | HorusKol | @Marakai - well, once they've gotten far enough west, I suppose Ulmo will handover to Varda... As for rare shipcraft and nautical skills - what might have been true at the time of kinslaying doesn't necessary hold true later: there are many references to elves in the east sailing on Cirdan's ships | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 3:50 | comment | added | Marakai | Well, seeing as they leave the Circles of the World and watch the waves fall below them (or something like that is said in either Akallabeth or Of The Rings of Power), wouldn't that put it in Lady "just call me Janeway" Varda's domain? More seriously, IIRC it's actually stated in the Silmarillion that knowledge of shipcraft and nautical skills were rare, except among the Teleri. Wasn't the Kinslaying all about stealing ships? And many Noldor marched through Helkaraxe. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 3:30 | history | answered | HorusKol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |