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Valinor is land of the immortals, or the undying. Andilar may be the opposite of such a place. The world or mortality. The song itself deals greatly with mortality. In my interpretation, a ship general symbolizes a human body, the captain the consciousness and the crew the subconscious or indiscrete consciousness's that are internal to us. The story is about an internal war with ones self and the enlightenment that comes when all avenues of escape and blame are gone and one is left to confront themselves. The holy king being God and in my interpretation the song is about the struggle of life and how we build great goals that force us ultimately to experience a great suffering that awakes us to ourselves and how we must relinquish our egos to a higher duty.
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∙ 15y agoI'm not 100% sure, I've just heard the song for the first time and got curious. The name Valinor is a Lord of the Rings reference. It is to the west of Middle Earth. In LOTR, the shipwright's name at the Gray Havens was Cirdan, however. At some point Cirdan taught a man named Aldarion about shipbuilding, but that's the closest that I've found so far! I'll keep listening and see if I can figure it out!
Michael Velik
The references of sailing north to battle in Valinor as servants of a holy king, the ships being blown off course and seperating, parallel what happened to the Phillip II's Spanish Armada in 1588. Andilar as a substitute to Andalucia seems plausible. If this was Townes Van Zandt's intention, then the song is written from the point of view of a soldier on one of those ships and how he is the last Survivor from that ship.
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