The Fall of Númenor

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The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-Earth is an edited 2022 collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's Second Age writings. The editor, Brian Sibley, uses extracts from "The Tale of Years" in the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings as a framework for the writings. The materials in the book cover the foundation, history and destruction of the land of Númenor; the forging of the Rings of Power; and the Last Alliance against Sauron that ended the Second Age. Reviewers have commented that the book, timed to coincide with Amazon's television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, set in the Second Age, will prove useful to its fans, giving them a grounding in Tolkien's writings. They note however that it offers little to scholars, as unlike The Nature of Middle-earth it contains no previously unpublished materials. Further, its purely chronological approach neither establishes a coherent narrative, nor traces the history of Tolkien's many drafts.

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