The Downfall of Numenor

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: The Downfall of Numenor

I always wonder how Elendil, who is named in Unfinished Tales as the author of the Akallabeth, knew what happened to Ar-Pharazon and his army after they broke the ban of the Valar.

The only people to come to Middle Earth who might have know what happened were the wizards, but they came a long time after the downfall, during the Third age, and I can't imagine them making any changes to the annals of Gondor, from which the Akallabeth was supposed to be taken.
Perhaps Elendil got the information from one of his palantirs (is that the correct plural?). Gandalf seems to hint that you can use the palantirs to look back in time.

Of course, the story itself wouldn't have been nearly as good if Ar-Pharazon simply vanished without explaination!


-Voronwë
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