however , with the fate of elwing b and c seem clearly to part company : in b there is a simple reference to her death , apparently associated with the curse of the nauglafring , and from the order in which the events are set down it may be surmised that her death took place on the journey to tol eressea ; c specifically refers to the 'sinking ' of elwing and the nauglafring -- but says that elwing became a seabird , an idea that sutvived ( the silmarillion p. 247 ) .