The scholar of fantasy and children's literature Dimitra Fimi draws a parallel between the seafaring Numenoreans and the Vikings of the Norse world, noting that in "The Lost Road and Other Writings", Tolkien describes their ship-burials, matching those in "Beowulf" and the "Prose Edda". She notes that Boromir is given a boat-funeral in "The Two Towers". Fimi further compares the helmet and crown of Gondor with the romanticised "headgear of the Valkyries", despite Tolkien's denial of a connection with Wagner's "Ring" cycle, noting the "likeness of the wings of a sea-bird" in his description of Aragorn's coronation, and his drawing of the crown in an unused dust jacket design.