ships

What sort of ships did the Numenoreans use? I'm thinking they might have used something like a carrack. A 15th century painting of a carrack.

Hi How is it That Elendil And His Fleet Where Blown Safely To Middle Earth If Amandil His Father Failed To Reach The Valar in The Udying Lands?

Was this ever written about or even speculated on? It's a small, insignificant thing to consider but... If the ships sailing into the west over the ages were really a one-way journey, and nobody ever sailed back to ME, then what happened to the ships themselves? Did the Undying Lands just have...

Okay, I'm not usually a fanfic person, but here goes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Part I: The Towers of Gondor The grey ships were long gone by the time Aragorn son of Arathorn's kingdom had blossomed to fullness. The Elves had passed over the Sea to Valinor, and Arwen Undomiel could not bear to...

From The Two Towers, "Treebeard" Which "Great Ships"? Numenorean vessels? They would have ceased to arrive in Middle-earth late in the Second Age; yet the Istari appear about 1000 years into the Third Age. Or vessels from out of the West? Certainly the Istari could only have come to...

What happened to the other six ships that Turgon had Cirdan build? Did they make it to the West? Obviously, they did not drown in a storm or something, but does it say anywhere what happened to them?

When Aragorn road with the dead men of dunharrow and the dunedain he captured the corsair fleet at Pelargir. What confuses me is that did he bring reinforcements from the fiefs of Gondor, or just the dead men of dunharrow or both? His arrival definately turned the tide of the battle so he must...