The Downfall of Numenor

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Re: The Downfall of Numenor

Very good questions to which answers are hard to find, but looking in the Silmarillion can lead to some more or less possible conclusions.
Hey Voronwe, you just took my point while I was writing. Well that one, and the fact that the Numenoreans reached Valinor in first place may have been due to either the will of the Valar who wanted to grant Ar-Pharazon a last chance to repent when looking at Oiolosse, or the might of Sauron. The Numenorean fleet was shrouded by a giant dark cloud, this could as well have been a protection cast by Sauron the Deceiver upon the fleet so that they would make it and get their chance to wage war upon Valinor. Maybe his power was great enough to assure a safe passage, and the Valar did not want to hinder this by force.

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