Tolkien, like any great writer, knew how to steal from the broadest range of sources. I wonder if this tale was the inspiration for the shipwreck of Arvedui, last king of Arnor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ship
I mean, it seems obvious if you're casually conversant in 12th century English politics, but I don't actually know that for a fact.
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I'll save for another day - or hell, later today - my extended analogy of why Gondor is Habsburg Austria.
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