#swanships

[thepinkseat-askthemoonbunny]

I know this is fucked up but when I imagine Feanor just straight up rolling up on the Teleri and stealing their boats, I imagine him singing "You're Welcome" while doing it.

[annaquenta]

[Image description: Ink and pencil drawing of two swanships at sea. One sailor is in each of them; they are talking to each other. End image description.]

October 8, 2020

for @silmarilasta Day 8: Ships

i considered doing something angsty but decided to draw something more chill instead

[squirrelwrangler]

Your top 3 Tolkien ships (I mean vessels)! Can be categories - like Umbar ships or Lorien boats, whatever.

Swanships of Alqualondë. Valued as highly as the SIlmarils, the cultural treasure and pride of the Falmari of which there is no equal or match, the craftsmanship of an entire community, more than just a means to an end, artwork and identity and livelihoods and home and joy and freedom and community and expression of history and devotion and my rage is as deep and endless as Uinen.

Vinglot. The original cool boat of Arda, the hallowed Evening Star, most famous iconographic craft, Eärendil named it after his wife, carried him (and her) safely to Aman.

The ships that were built by the Edain and Maiar to take all the settlers to Númenor. The mortals aren’t sailors and won’t be for several more generations, but here’s ships transporting people to a new land of hope and beginning- and no one already there to be displaced and no war facing them. And the combination of their builders- humans unfamiliar with seafaring and angelic helpers themselves.