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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.
[T 2] Númenor was in the Great Sea, closer to Aman in the West than to Middle-earth in the east. [T 3] In shape it was a star, with five peninsulas extending from the central region, which was around 250 miles (400 km) across. [T 2] Karen Wynn Fonstad estimated the island to be 167,691 square miles [435,017 km 2] in area. [1]
Free-to-play's model is sometimes derisively referred to as free-to-start due to not being entirely free. [1] Free-to-play games have also been widely criticized as "pay-to-win"—that is, that players can generally pay to obtain competitive or power advantages over other players. There are several kinds of free-to-play business models.
The Mac version was released on November 2, 2010. [1] The PlayStation 3 version was released on March 31, 2011 on the US PlayStation Store and on September 11 of that year in the EU, and was accessible via the PlayStation Network. [2] [16] [17] [18] The PC version was accessed via an browser plug-in [19] paired with the Free Realms website, [20 ...
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.
The downfall of Númenor and the changing of the world: the island is drowned by Ilúvatar, and Elendil, Isildur and their people escape to Middle-earth. [1]In Tolkien's legendarium, the island of Númenor, in the great sea to the West of Middle-earth, was created at the start of the Second Age as a reward to the men who had fought against the fallen Vala Morgoth, the primary antagonist of the ...
The company's streaming service, Amazon Prime Video, ordered a series based on the novel and its appendices to be produced by Amazon Studios in association with New Line Cinema. [1] It was later titled The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. [2] Amazon hired J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay to develop the series and serve as showrunners in July ...
Elendil (Quenya:) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.He is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.He was the father of Isildur and Anárion, last lord of Andúnië on the island of Númenor, and having escaped its downfall by sailing to Middle-earth, became the first High King of Arnor and Gondor.