Editing Eärendil and Elwing (section)

=== Wade ===

{{further|Wade (folklore)}}

The Tolkien scholar Tibor Tarcsay writes that Eärendil is based not only on Old English but also Indo-European and universal myths. [[Wade (folklore)|Wade]] has power over the sea and superhuman strength, while numerous other mythical Indo-European figures share Eärendil's conjunction of water, boat or horse, and herald or star, such as [[Surya]], the sun-god of the [[Vedas]], or Apollo with his horse-drawn chariot which pulls the sun across the sky.<ref name="Tarcsay 2015">{{cite journal |last=Tarcsay |first=Tibor |title='Chaoskampf', Salvation, and Dragons: Archetypes in Tolkien's Earendel |journal=[[Mythlore]] |volume=33 |issue=2 (126) |year=2015 |pages=139–150 |jstor=26815994 |url=https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol33/iss2/12/}}</ref> Vingilot is mentioned in [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Merchant's Tale]]'' as the name of Wade's ship; Wade is in turn mentioned in the Old English poem ''[[Widsith]]'', while [[Sir Gawain]]'s horse has a name similar to Vingilot, Gryngolet.<ref name="Tarcsay 2015"/> 
[[Christopher Tolkien]], too, noted the matching boat-names, [[Guingelot]] for Wade and Wingelot for Earendel, and stated that the link between Wade and [[Tuor and Idril|Tuor]] was "not casual", which Flieger takes to mean, certainly intentional. Flieger notes further that in ''[[Parma Eldalamberon]]'' 15, Tolkien unambiguously wrote "Wade = Earendel".<ref name="Flieger 2022">{{cite journal |last=Flieger |first=Verlyn |author-link=Verlyn Flieger |year=2022 |title=A Lost Tale, A Found Influence: Earendel and Tinúviel |journal=[[Mythlore]] |volume=40 |issue=2 |at=Article 7 |url=https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol40/iss2/7}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Tolkien |first=J. R. R. |author-link=J. R. R. Tolkien |title=Sí Qente Feanor & Other Elvish Writings |journal=[[Parma Eldalamberon]] |issue=15 |year=2004 |page=97}}</ref>