Naioma Murray
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

By : Naioma Murray

The Fall of Numenor

Every muscle shivered within him, it was cold, and dark, he was alone, he wanted out. He wanted his freedom back. He wanted to glimpse the bright sun again, to walk amongst the strong again, to talk amongst the powerful. How dare they imprison him here and leave him, he was one of the great, one of the powerful, how dare they be so foolish to leave him here to his mind, to the plans he’d been creating over all these centuries? Though his ploy had worked, he successfully deceived all of his surrender, he was sick of this dirty rotted place. It was time.

I corrupted the King of Numenor, Ar-Pharazon, and upon that temples were risen, to the Lord of Darkness and human sacrifice was made upon his altar.

Every night he whispered into the wild winds, of secrets of immortality hoping that one day a King longing for his kingdom to be in his clutches would greedily seek him out with question of what he whispered of into the dark night.

I advised the Numenoreans to wage war on the Valar and the Eldar who lived their lives in the Undying Lands. Ar-Pharazon feared death and so I whispered of the immortality that the Valar were hiding from him.

Ar-Pharazon raged, and while he raged on he planned day and night, weeks went on, until finally his plan was perfect. He was to take my advice and send forward fleets of his men to attack Valar and Eldar.

Once under attack the Kings of Valar clashed the waves of the Sea, smacked the fleets around as if they were nothing but mere paper boats floating in a bath, the boats broke and fell asleep at the bottom of the Sea where they’d never awake again, as for the others whom were smart and turned, ran like mice to the corners of the lands where the waves’ hands couldn’t go to grasp them to lay them asleep at the bottom with their fellow brethren.

In later years men sang this song. Of the seven ships that went the other way. The seven captains that ignored Sauron’s plot:

“Tall Ships and tall kings

Three times three

What brought them from the sundered land

Across the flowing sea?

Seven stars and seven stones

And one white tree.”

I walked out of the darkness in which was my home for so long, at least until this very bright day.

I threw on an old tattered and dusty cloak and scrambled out onto the sun laden shore and built myself a small boat out of logs and sticks, vines and ropes and i set sail for the lands of Mordor.