• people. Tolkien intended Númenor to allude to the legendary Atlantis. Commentators have noted that the destruction of Númenor echoes the Biblical stories...
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  • land of Númenor; the forging of the Rings of Power; and the Last Alliance against Sauron that ended the Second Age. The chapters concerning Númenor from...
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  • beyond that of other Men. Indeed, the isle of Númenor lay closer to Aman than to Middle-earth. The fall of Númenor came about through the influence of the corrupted...
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    stolen fruit. When Númenor was destroyed by the creator, Ilúvatar, Elendil's family escaped in nine ships. The refugees from Númenor fled east to the continent...
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  • father Tar-Meneldur. "The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor", a chronicle listing all the Kings of Númenor from its foundation to its destruction "The History...
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  • that drowned Númenor, itself an echo of the myth of Atlantis, founding new Númenórean kingdoms in Middle-earth. Elendil was born in Númenor, son of Amandil...
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    powerful of the Kings of Númenor, humbled Sauron – his armies deserting in the face of Númenor's might – and brought him to Númenor as a hostage, although...
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  • introduced the "biggest world yet" in the island kingdom of Númenor. They said visiting Númenor was one of the key reasons for making a series set in the...
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    the isle of Númenor lay closer to the Valar's earthly paradise of Valinor, on the continent of Aman, than to Middle-earth. The fall of Númenor came about...
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  • At the beginning of the Second Age, the Valar gave the Edain Númenor to live on. Númenor was an island-continent located far to the west of Middle-earth...
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  • create the island of Númenor as a reward to the Edain, Men who had fought alongside the Noldor. Centuries later the kingdom of Númenor grows so powerful...
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    of a family of the Faithful from Númenor who had ruled over the land of Belfalas since the Second Age, before Númenor was destroyed. This family of Númenóreans...
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  • Age, Númenor sought to colonize Middle-earth. Led by Ar-Pharazôn, a massive army sailed to Middle-earth to battle Sauron. Dismayed by Númenor's might...
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    a three-stage process, like that of Númenor. Hamish Williams regards the narrative of decline and fall in Númenor as a thought-experiment exercise recalling...
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  • the war, the creator, Eru Iluvatar, gives the Edain the new island of Númenor as their home. The key difference between Men and Elves now becomes central...
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  • correspondence with C. S. Lewis led to the writing of The Lost Road. The Fall of Númenor — an early draft of what would become the Akallabêth. The Lost Road — an...
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  • Power, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the fall of the island kingdom of Númenor, and the last alliance between Elves and Men. The series was originally...
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  • brought as a gift to the Men who live on the island of Númenor. It is Nimloth, the White Tree of Númenor. When the dark lord Sauron takes control of the island...
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  • descendants" Tolkien 1987 Part One: II. The Fall of Númenor, (iii) "The second version of The Fall of Númenor" Tolkien 1994 Part Two: "The Later Quenta Silmarillion:...
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  • throughout Tolkien's writings, from The Silmarillion and the accounts of Númenor to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Where Elves are good, and fully...
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  • of Númenor and Middle-earth that left wounds like "both a heavy dint as of a club and cleft as a sword". It was later held by the Kings of Numenor, until...
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  • form. He convinces her that she actually saw Celebrimbor. The new king of Númenor, Ar-Pharazôn, tasks his son Kemen with cracking down on members of the...
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  • "unambiguously and intimately" linked to Tolkien's Númenor, since Tolkien actually wrote of "Númenor-Atlantis" in his letters. The Tolkien scholar Verlyn...
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  • about Númenor, a lost civilisation connected with Atlantis and with Tolkien's Middle-earth. Through these dreams, he "discovers" much about the Númenor story...
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  • continent of Númenor as a gift to the now homeless Men of Beleriand, thenceforth called Númenóreans. After Eru Ilúvatar destroyed Númenor near the end...
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  • Power, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the fall of the island kingdom of Númenor, and the last alliance between Elves and Men. These events take place over...
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  • as Kilta, Peter Landi as Marmadas, William Chubb as the High Priest of Númenor, Robert Strange as Glûg, and Kai Martin as Zhor. Josh Dyer, John Macdonald...
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  • the shape of several incidents including the Akallabêth (The Downfall of Númenor). There is no single Christ-figure comparable to C. S. Lewis's Aslan in...
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    most powerful king of Númenor, landed at Umbar with an immense army, forcing Sauron's armies to flee. Sauron was taken to Númenor as a prisoner. Tolkien...
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  • introduced in the season, including Isildur and others from Númenor. The showrunners said visiting Númenor, a kingdom of Men that is destroyed near the end of...
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