Morbid's tip on dragons was useful (for me too). I would add that although I LIKE the 3/4 view T-Rex portrait, it doesn't look sufficiently dragonish or fit the medieval style of Tolkien stories. If anything, it might be a stylized full body silhouette in side view. There is a swan for download at the Props Guild or someplace if you wanted to combine the front of the ship with an actual swan. I think the Hildebrants did an interpretaion of the swan ship on one of their calendars, might have appeared on the audio version of the trilogy.