September 13, 2004

Numenor and What Did He Say?
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Eru had it in for Numenor ever since they stopped worshipping him and started worshipping Morgoth, following the advice of none other than Sauron. It wasn't until the Numenoreans, led by Ar-Pharazon, attempted to invade Aman in a foolish, not courageous, bid to gain immortality that Eru finally said, "All right, they've gone too far." Sauron knew that at worst the Valar would retaliate and crush the invading Numenoreans, thus ridding him of those pests and leaving him to rule the women and children of Numenor, and at best Ar-Pharazon would win and Sauron could find a way to rule Aman. He didn't consider the possibility that Eru himself would intervene and destroy not only the army but also the kingdom of Numenor and remove Aman from the world, thus destroying any chance of exacting revenge on those shifty elves.

I just realized, if Ar-Pharazon had been allowed to invade, could he have won? Because Valinor is where all elves go, dead or alive, is it not? So it stands to reason that there would be a fair amount of dead elves from the First Age. And, even if the elves could be killed, what would happen to them? Would they just go to the Void or something?

And, thanks to the magic of captioning, I found out what Sauron says in the Prancing Pony.

"You cannot hide. I see you. There is no life in the Void. Only death."

Annatar, Sauron the Deceiver, the Lord of the Rings, and his newest title: the Stalking Eye

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