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'''The Fall of Númenor''' is the second chapter of the first section of ''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]''. As explained in "[[The Early History of the Legend]]", the texts presented here are Tolkien's personal retelling of the story of [[Atlantis]] in relation with ''[[The Lost Road]]'', that later will become the ''[[Akallabêth]]''.
'''The Fall of Númenor''' is the second chapter of the first section of ''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]''. As explained in "[[The Early History of the Legend]]", the texts presented here are Tolkien's personal retelling of the story of [[Atlantis]] in relation with ''[[The Lost Road]]'', that later became the ''[[Akallabêth]]''.


==The original outline==
==The original outline==

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The Lost Road and Other Writings chapters
Part One
  1. The Early History of the Legend
  2. The Fall of Númenor
  3. The Lost Road
Part Two
  1. The Texts and Their Relations
  2. The Later Annals of Valinor
  3. The Later Annals of Beleriand
  4. Ainulindalë
  5. The Lhammas
  6. Quenta Silmarillion
Part Three
The Etymologies

The Fall of Númenor is the second chapter of the first section of The Lost Road and Other Writings. As explained in "The Early History of the Legend", the texts presented here are Tolkien's personal retelling of the story of Atlantis in relation with The Lost Road, that later became the Akallabêth.

The original outline

The first text of the legend was written with such speed that many words are unreadable and is full of corrections and marginal notes. As an outline, it only provides the main ideas that later will be used in the

The first version of The Fall of Númenor

The second version of The Fall of Númenor

The further development of The Fall of Númenor

References