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Ar-Gimilzôr forces the Faithful to relocate to eastern Númenor (estimated date)

Event Type: Military/Strategic

Age: Akallabêth/Last Alliance

Year: 3102

Description:
An event in the early prelude of the Downfall of Númenor; see that entry for an overview:

... Ar-Gimilzôr the [twenty-third] king was the greatest enemy of the Faithful. In his day the White Tree was untended and began to decline; and he forbade utterly the use of the Elven-tongues, and punished those that welcomed the ships of Eressëa, that still came secretly to the west-shores of the land.

Now the Elendili dwelt mostly in the western regions of Númenor; but Ar-Gimilzôr commanded all that he could discover to be of this party to remove from the west and dwell in the east of the land; and there they were watched. And the chief dwelling of the Faithful in the later days was thus nigh to the harbour of Rómenna; thence many set sail to Middle-earth, seeking the northern coasts where they might speak still with the Eldar in the kingdom of Gil-galad. This was known to the kings, but they hindered it not, so long as the Elendili departed from their land and did not return; for they desired to end all friendship between their people and the Eldar of Eressëa, whom they named the Spies of the Valar, hoping to keep their deeds and their counsels hidden from the Lords of the West. But all that they did was known to Manwë, and the Valar were wroth with the Kings of Númenor, and gave them counsel and protection no more; and the ships of Eressëa came never again out of the sunset, and the havens of Andúnië were forlorn.

The Silmarillion, Akallabêth

[The date is an estimate, set to follow the event Ar-Gimilzôr becomes King of Númenor.]

Contributors:
Elena Tiriel 15Nov05

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