 The ship-burials of the seafaring Numenoreans in "The Lost Road and Other Writings" have been compared to those of the Viking age as described in the "Prose Edda" and in "Beowulf"; Boromir is similarly given a boat-funeral.As with Scyld Scefing's funeral ship in "Beowulf", no-one knows where the boat goes to in the end, but for Tolkien the suggestion that it goes to a mysterious land in the uttermost West was fascinating, and he developed it at length in "The Lost Road".In both Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film and in the subsequent BBC Radio serial, Boromir is played by Michael Graham Cox.