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Númenor or Númenórë, was the greatest Mannish civilization in the history of Middle-earth, flourishing during the Second Age.

Also known in the Common Speech as Westernesse and in Adûnaic as Anadûnê, strictly speaking the term Númenor referred to the realm established on the island of Elenna, but it was more often used as a synonym for the land itself. The isle was raised from the Great Sea by the Valar at the beginning of the Second Age, and its people, the Númenóreans were blessed with a long and prosperous life. However, after three millennia, their wish for immortality corrupted them and led them to the Fall of Númenor.

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“Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three,
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one white tree.”

—The Two Towers, "The Palantír", A rhyme of lore recited by Gandalf

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On this day... 21 September

On Earth

• 1923 – Swedish author and translator Roland Adlerberth is born.
• 1937 – The Hobbit is published.
• 1937 – J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Simonne d'Ardenne.
• 1937 – J.R.R. Tolkien signs copies of The Hobbit and sends them to E.V. Gordon, Elaine Griffiths, Helen Buckhurst, Stella Mills, Hilary Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Katherine Kilbride.
• 1947 – J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 111.
• 1965 – Actor David Wenham is born.
• 1986 – Oxonmoot 1986 at Oxford Town Hall.
• 1990 – Oxonmoot 1990 at Oxford Town Hall.
• 1991 – Oxonmoot 1991 at University College.
• 1996 – Oxonmoot 1996 at University College.
• 1997 – Oxonmoot 1997 at Exeter College.
• 2001 – Oxonmoot 2001 at St Antony's College.
• 2003 – Oxonmoot 2003 at St Hugh's College.
• 2012 – Oxonmoot 2012 at Lady Margaret Hall.
• 2013 – Oxonmoot 2013 at Lady Margaret Hall.
• 2015 - Arne Zettersten, colleague and friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, dies.
• 2017 - Oxonmoot 2017 at St Antony's College.
• 2018 - Oxonmoot 2018 at St Antony's College.

In Arda

• T.A. 3001:
  • Cloudy weather over Hobbiton.
• T.A. 3018:
  • Gandalf meets Shadowfax, but the horse does not allow him to come near. He follows Shadowfax far over the fields.
  • Frodo starts to become really anxious of Gandalf's absence, and keeps a constant look-out for him.
  • Boromir travels towards Rivendell to ask for counsel.
• T.A. 3019:
  • Gandalf and the Hobbits arrive at Rivendell.
• T.A. 3021
  • Frodo and Sam set out from Hobbiton for the Grey Havens.

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