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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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“Fall of Númenor” by Alan Lee

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On this day... 30 November

On Earth

• 1932 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
• 1947 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 112.
• 1955 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 175.
• 1958 - Actor Gareth Jones dies.
• 1964 - El hobito, the first translation into Spanish of The Hobbit, is published.
• 1966 - J.R.R. Tolkien conducts an interview, published as "The Man Who Understands Hobbits".
• 1966 - Letters to an American Lady is released.
• 1972 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 345.
• 1987 - The Lost Road and Other Writings is published in the US.
• 1989 - The Treason of Isengard is published in the US.
• 1989 - Oliphaunt is published.
• 2014 - Tolkien's Great War (documentary) by Zander and Elliot Weaver is released.

In Arda

• T.A. 3018:
  • Frodo and Samwise rest in Rivendell and prepare for their quest to destroy the One Ring.

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