The Fall of Númenor (chapter)

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The Lost Road and Other Writings chapters
Part One The Early History of the Legend The Fall of Númenor The Lost Road Part Two The Texts and Their Relations The Later Annals of Valinor The Later Annals of Beleriand Ainulindalë The Lhammas 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 narratives below. Therefore there is no mention of any character except Thû and .

Near the beginning it is included a basic sketch of the World Made Round, being a forerunner of the Diagram III of the Ambarkanta maps. This idea and the Straight Path were set down for first time in this outline.