So here is a little speech Voronwe makes in the Unifinished Tales:
"The Great Sea is terrible, Tuor son of Huor. It hates the Noldor, for it works the Doom of the Valar. Worse things it holds than to sink into the abyss and so perish: loathing, and loneliness, and madness; terror of wind and tumult, and silence, and shadows where all hope is lost and all living shapes pass away. And many shores evil and strange it washes, and many islands of danger and fear infest it. I will not darken your heart, son of Middle-Earth, with the tale of my labour seven years in the Great Sea from the North even unto the South, but never the West.
Now, even assuming that he is exaggerating, as those old sea dogs tend to do, it really does sound like he Saw and Experienced Things that I, for one, would love to read more about, even if this might "darken my heart". I can see the tale being Odyssey-like; or Age-of-Exploration-like; or even just somewhat humorous, on the assumption that Voronwe is full of it.
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Voronwe, a sea-faring adventure
Date: 2015-03-03 01:14 am (UTC)"The Great Sea is terrible, Tuor son of Huor. It hates the Noldor, for it works the Doom of the Valar. Worse things it holds than to sink into the abyss and so perish: loathing, and loneliness, and madness; terror of wind and tumult, and silence, and shadows where all hope is lost and all living shapes pass away. And many shores evil and strange it washes, and many islands of danger and fear infest it. I will not darken your heart, son of Middle-Earth, with the tale of my labour seven years in the Great Sea from the North even unto the South, but never the West.
Now, even assuming that he is exaggerating, as those old sea dogs tend to do, it really does sound like he Saw and Experienced Things that I, for one, would love to read more about, even if this might "darken my heart". I can see the tale being Odyssey-like; or Age-of-Exploration-like; or even just somewhat humorous, on the assumption that Voronwe is full of it.