The sequence in which you aranged the source text seems more or less okay to me, so I would put
The Line of Elros earlier. And I would change the structure in which to present them:
Quote:
TRANSLATION FROM THE ELVISH
Volume 2: NÚMENOR AND THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Akallabêth
.A Description of the Island of Númenor
.The Line of Elros: The Kings of Númenor
.Indis i-Ciryamo: The Mariner's Wife
.The Downfall of Númenor
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To include part of the introdcution of
The downfall of Númenor in
A description of the Island of Númenor seem better then the other way around. I agree that
Tal-Elmar is a Middle-earth tale rather the a Númenorian one. So if it can be include it is in the Middle-earth part, if really the parts will be seperated in that way. Alternativly
Indis i-Ciryamo could be followed by the parts of
Galadriel and Celeborn including the story of the fall of Eregion. Of course in that case the title
Akallabêth has to be removed to the last part of
The Downfall of Númenor.
I never saw the Númenoren chapters of
The Lost Road as chapters of thier own in our work, but parts of them might be integrated into
The Downfall of Númenor.
Respectfully
Findegil