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Isn't the Akallabeth basically a fusion of two sources, Elvish and Mannish (i.e. The Fall of Numenor and the Drowning of Anadune)?
If so, shouldn't we expect certain things (such as the 'flying ships') to be present in one telling of the story and not the other?
In other words, just because something is missing in the Akallabeth itself, doesn't necessarily mean that Tolkien rejected it.
And since we're not creating a 'work of literature' so much as a giant 'lore compendium' (so to speak), I think we have the luxury of making things explicit that Tolkien might otherwise not.
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