Vingilot

Vingilot. Foamflower.

Wingelot.

Wingilot. Wingelot replaced by Wingilot.

Vingelot.

Vingilótë. Quenya for Vingilot.

Wingalótë. Replaced by Wingelótë.

Wingelótë.

Gwingloth. Sindarin form of Wingalótë.

Vingalótë.

Rothinzil. Adûnaic for Vingilot, meaning the same.

Rôthinzil. ( Early form of Rothinzil )

Guingelot.

Gwing(e)loth ( Noldorin : Flower of the Foam )

Eälótë.

1 Age.

F.A.528-532. The last ship build by Eärendil with the help of Círdan. Fairest of ships build with white timber from the beech woods of Nimbrethil, golden oars and sails as the argent Moon. In Vingilot sets Eärendil sail into the West and came at length to Valinor and beyond the Doors of the Night and now Vingilot sails in the wind of the firmament.

It is from the early stages of The Drowning of Anadûnê told how Eärendil, the friend of the sea, came upon the thought he would build a fairer and more swift ship that any human had ever made. Its timber and sails were white, the prow was carwen in the liking of a silver bird and it was, as the first of all ships of Men given a name to bear and that was at its launching.

Further information.

That it was the first ship to bear a name comes from the second copy of The Drowning of Anadûnê. Of the names several variations over the same name appears but I took the time to write down the information of those I found most interesting. The Adûnaic name and the first name.

Rothinzil - Rôthinzil

The Adûnaic name Rothinzil (Rôthinzil) comes to us from Númenor and the story of the Akallabêth, The Drowning of Anadûnê, as told to Ælfwine by Pengoloð. (Ælfwine and Pengoloð were from the earliest versions and the tale later became written by Elendil and saved in Gondor.) In these it is told how Eärendil, as Morgoth drew closer to his final victory, "built his ship Vingilot, that Men called Rothinzil, and voyaged upon the unsailed seas, seeking ever for Valinor"

The word, Rothinzil are not known in Quenya, Sindarin or Telerian. Neither is it from the vocabulary of the Green-elves of Ossiriand from where Eärendil`s wife Elwing came. It derives partly from the original human, Bëorian, language. It originally was not connected to boats and the stem "Ruth" basically meant "scar, score, furrow" but when applied to boats it referred to their track, to the curling water at the prow or in the wake. From this we may also learn that the Adûnaic word Inzil must mean Flower according to the statement of J.R.R.Tolkien (Pme. The History of the Akallabêth, note 4.) "Rothinzil is a name in the Númenorian tongue, and it has the same meaning as Vingilot, which is Foamflower"

Guingelot. Sindarin form Gwingloth.

Old Noldorin form Gwingeloth.

Wingalótë. Wingalótë was replaced by Wingelótë.

The earliest name of Vingilot. The whole concept of the name of Eärendil`s ship Guinglot go back into the depth of time and an old English poem "Widsith" about Wada (Wade) Helsingum, originally a sea-giant ruling and honored by the coast people of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. These giants had power over the sea and an extraordinary strength and used those powers to help and aid those whom they favored. In the tale Wade appear as a ruler of the Danes in Helsingør ( Wada of the Helsings ) In the poem of J.R.R.T. that was to be an early fragment of a Lay of Eärendil Wade appears in the place of Tuor and his boat was named, though not mentioned in J.R.R.T.`s fragment, Guingelot. There is no doubt in the mind of J.R.R.Tolkiens son C.Tolkien "The facts that Wingelot was Eärendil`s ship, that Eärendil was Tuor`s son, that Tour was peculiarly associated with the sea, and that Wade of the Helsings stands in the place of Tuor, coincidence is ruled out. Wingelot was derived from Wade`s boat Guingelot"

Eälótë.

Appear as an alteration of the name in a second phase of the text of the development of the Akallabêth.

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