 Further, Roland's death gives the appearance of signalling the end of the ruling dynasty.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".