The Fall of Numenor
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The Fall of Numenor
19.99 €
J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as years of which "not much is known." So readers had to make do with the fascinating fragments found in the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of Barad-dûr, and the rise of Sauron.
It was not until Christopher Tolkien's publication of The Silmarillion that a more complete story was told. While much of the book concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, it concluded with two stories revealing the turbulent events surrounding the rise and fall of the island of Númenor. Raised from the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the Valar and Elves in defeating and capturing the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a powerful and wealthy center of Middle-earth. But as the Númenóreans grew in power, the seeds of their downfall were inevitably sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.
The Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth and the twelve-volume History provided readers with new information, and editor Brian Sibley compiled a new chronicle of the Second Age in this volume, based on various texts by J.R.R. Tolkien.
It was not until Christopher Tolkien's publication of The Silmarillion that a more complete story was told. While much of the book concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, it concluded with two stories revealing the turbulent events surrounding the rise and fall of the island of Númenor. Raised from the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the Valar and Elves in defeating and capturing the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a powerful and wealthy center of Middle-earth. But as the Númenóreans grew in power, the seeds of their downfall were inevitably sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.
The Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth and the twelve-volume History provided readers with new information, and editor Brian Sibley compiled a new chronicle of the Second Age in this volume, based on various texts by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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