Numenor

I went looking but the name storm had stuck in my head and when I went into Tolkien names I got things like Numenor which is kind of a doomish sounding name.

Name that Kitty! Susan Palwick 2007

I wonder if he has ever read The Silmarillion, or Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth (let alone, The Children of Hurin)?

China Miéville on J.R.R. Tolkien 2009

The literal rise and fall of the island continent of Numenor eventually became the Second Age of Middle-earth in the back-story to The Lord of the Rings.

Archive 2010-01-01 Johnny Pez 2010

The literal rise and fall of the island continent of Numenor eventually became the Second Age of Middle-earth in the back-story to The Lord of the Rings.

Recapitulating "Reverse Phylogeny" Johnny Pez 2010

I was readingTheLord of the Rings, but the catalogue of the heirs of Numenor put me to sleep.

Incidentally 2010

Sauron escaped Numenor as a spirit, his body went down with the ship.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Scientific Evidence for the Lord of the Rings 2009

This section of the book, The Akallabeth, is the story of the Second Age and the glory and power of Numenor, the mighty human island empire whose kings are the ancestors of Aragorn.

Archive 2009-02-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

Great line. geyesgvawrfty they really need to make movies based on the rise and fall of Numenor, The Fall Of GondolinIt would be the greatest battle sequence ever, and of course the actual Silmarillion story, and all the other gems inside that book. a.d.

Hugo Weaving Will Return For THE HOBBIT – Collider.com 2009

It struck me as a predecessor of Tolkien's conception of Numenor, rather than trying to recreate Atlantis as such - perhaps Tolkie was drawing on all the drowned-kingdom legends of Northern Europe, rather than on Plato's Atlantis as such, although he referred to it as "the Atlantis story" in his notes so he clearly had Atlantis in mind.

The Science of Middle Earth, by Henry Gee. Book review Carla 2009

Numenor AKA Westernesse, surely a riff on Lyonesse and a whole northern European sunken-lands tradition that seems to have originated completely independently of Plato and Atlantis.

The Science of Middle Earth, by Henry Gee. Book review Carla 2009