• 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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  • The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-Earth is an edited 2022 collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's Second Age writings. The editor...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Second Age, Ar-Pharazôn, king of Númenor, led a massive army to Middle-earth. Sauron surrendered, to corrupt Númenor from within. With the One Ring, Sauron...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • "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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  • 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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  • Age. The episode primarily follows characters from the island kingdom of Númenor. It was written by Helen Shang and directed by Louise Hooper and Charlotte...
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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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    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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  • in Númenor during the series' events. Using the palantír to show a vision of Numenor's destruction allowed them to lean into the fact that Númenor is...
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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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  • 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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  • Beleriand, was drowned in the War of Wrath. In the Second Age, a large island, Númenor, was created in the Great Sea, Belegaer, between Aman and Middle-earth;...
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  • Retrieved 13 January 2013. Coggan, Devan (13 July 2022). "Welcome to Númenor: Get an exclusive look at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power". Entertainment...
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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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  • in Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, Adûnaic was spoken by the Men of Númenor during the Second Age. By the time of the War of the Ring at the end of...
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    (2018) Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (2020) The Lord of the Rings (2022) (Folio Society) The Fall of Númenor (2022) For his 1978 book with...
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