Event

The Founding of Númenor

The Edain are given the island of Númenor as reward for their war against Morgoth.

Supplementary writingsFrom posthumously published works, notes, drafts or appendices.

Date: S.A. 32
Age: The Second Age
Type: Founding
Certainty: Approximate

The event

The Edain are given the island of Númenor as reward for their war against Morgoth.

Consequences

The Dúnedain enter their age of greatness, with long life and a deep longing for the West.

Participants

Elendil

Survivor of Númenor and first High King of the Dúnedain in Middle-earth, who founded Gondor and Arnor.

Isildur

King of Gondor and Arnor who cut the One Ring from Sauron’s hand, then kept it and was slain by Orcs.

Place

Sources

The Silmarillion · 1977
Posthumously edited. Contains the Ainulindalë, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion, Akallabêth and Of the Rings of Power.
Unfinished Tales · 1980
Expanded and alternative accounts of the First, Second and Third Ages.