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Kings of the Dúnedain In J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth writings, the Dúnedain ( / ˈ d uː n ɛ d aɪ n / ; singular: Dúnadan , "Man of the West") were a race of Men , also known as the Númenóreans or Men of Westernesse (translated from the Sindarin term).
The names connected by his philological studies formed for Tolkien the possibility of an inexorable downward progression, from the long-lost mythical world of Númenor in the Second Age, to his fantasy world of Middle-earth in the Third Age, also now lost, to the real ancient Germanic and Anglo-Saxon thousands of years later, and finally down ...
Name Reign Notes Image Atlas: 12th Century BC King of Libya [1] [2] [3] Iarbas: 9th Century BC King that welcomed Queen dido of Carthage and allowed establishment of the city of carthage Madghis: 4th Century BC King of Numidia of which the mosoleum of Medghacen was named after [4] [5] Zelalsen 3rd early Century BC Unknown, possibly shuphet [6] Gala
Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age.The third volume of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, is largely concerned with the events in Gondor during the War of the Ring and with the restoration of the realm afterward.
Lists of ancient kings are organized by region and peoples, and include kings recorded in ancient history (3000 BC – 1700 AD) and in mythology. Southern Europe [ edit ]
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, Brian Sibley, uses extracts from "The Tale of Years" in the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings as a framework for the writings.
Unlike The Silmarillion, also published posthumously (in 1977), for which the narrative fragments were modified to connect them into a consistent and coherent work, the Unfinished Tales are presented as Tolkien left them, with little more than names changed (the author having had a confusing habit of trying out different names for a character ...
List of monarchs may refer to: List of current sovereign monarchs; List of current constituent monarchs; List of monarchs by nickname; List of fictional monarchs; List of longest-reigning monarchs; A king list, used as an early form of periodisation