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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 ...
Maglor casts a Silmaril into the Sea by Ted Nasmith, 1997. The painting was used on the front cover of HarperCollins's illustrated edition of The Silmarillion in 1999. [1]J. R. R. Tolkien describes the history of the Silmarils in The Silmarillion, published after but in fiction long preceding the events of The Lord of the Rings.
Wizards like Gandalf were immortal Maiar, but took the form of Men.. The Wizards or Istari in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction were powerful angelic beings, Maiar, who took the physical form and some of the limitations of Men to intervene in the affairs of Middle-earth in the Third Age, after catastrophically violent direct interventions by the Valar, and indeed by the one god Eru Ilúvatar, in the ...
Eärendil's son Elrond too chose elvish immortality, becoming known as Half-elven, and in the Third Age played an important role in The War of the Ring, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. [ T 4 ] Elros chose mortality, the gift of Men, founding the line of the Kings of Númenor ; [ T 4 ] his descendant at the time of The War of the Ring was ...
The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilːiɔn]) is a book consisting of a collection of myths [a] [T 1] and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien.It was edited, partly written, and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, assisted by Guy Gavriel Kay, who became a fantasy author.
[T 16] In The Lord of the Rings, the Red Arrow was a token used by Gondor to summon its allies in time of need. [T 17] In the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the Red Arrow is omitted and its role is conflated with the Beacons of Gondor. [14] Hobbits "shot well with the bow". [T 18] The Shire sent archers to the battles of the Fall of Arnor. [T 19]
Tolkien enjoyed medieval works like Fastitocalon, and often imitated them in his poetry, in this case in a poem of the same name.French manuscript, c. 1270. J. R. R. Tolkien was attracted to medieval literature, and made use of it in his writings, both in his poetry, which contained numerous pastiches of medieval verse, and in his Middle-earth novels where he embodied a wide range of medieval ...
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.