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Vingilótë, or Vingilot, is a fictional ship in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. It was the ship in which Eärendil and Elwing sailed to Aman to seek pardon and assistance from the Valar. Its name is Quenya for "Foam-flower".


Guided by the light of a Silmaril, Eärendil navigated Vingilótë through the Shadowy Seas to the Blessed Realm of Aman, the first Mortal to do so. He was not allowed, however, to return to Middle-earth, except to join the host of the Valar in the final War of Wrath against Morgoth.


After the War of Wrath, Eärendil, with the Silmaril upon his brow, sailed Vingilótë into the sky where the jewel shines forever as a morning star (the equivalent to Venus).


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Eärendil (686 words)
With the aid of Círdan the Shipwright, Eärendil built a ship, Vingilótë (or Vingilot), which is Quenya for foam-flower.
Elwing and Eärendil chose to be joined to the Elves; and the Valar took Vingilotë and with Eärendil upon it set it to sail through the sky, with the Silmaril bound upon his brow.
Now when first Vingilot was set to sail in the seas of heaven, it rose unlooked for, glittering and bright; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered, and they took it for a sign, and called it Gil-Estel, the Star of High Hope.
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Vingilot clicked at her in greeting and said she was hunting so just wanted to say hi for a moment.
Vingilot rested on the smooth sandy ocean floor next to her.
She had taken care of Vingilot since her mother bottle nosed dolphin Undomiel had got caught by human contraptions.
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