35:58 "As such, Ar-Pharazon was able to simply walk into Mordor..." I see what you did there 😂😂

Year 3434 of the second age. Here follows the account of Isildur, high king of Gondor and the finding of the Ring of Power.

Should have just called the video "Everything the Rings of Power Got Wrong or Couldn't Care Less About."

Every time I hear of Numenor as a realm, I get sad because it was such a beautiful place and yet Sauron utterly ruined it by wicked manipulation. But it is a fair reminder to us that men's pride and hubris can prove as catastrophic as any natural disaster.

One channel to bring them all, and with the algorithm, bind them.

The lore of Middle-Earth is amazing

Hey. You guys forgot a bunch of stuff! Galadriel was super involved in all of this stuff…and you forgot her love story with Sauron. Cmon guys. Keep up! 😂😂😂

Mechanicus soundtrack goes so fucking hard man

35:58 One does not simply...nevermind!

Tolkien fans are simple people, just don't mess with us, rop is learning that well.

Very nice maps and Animation! Tolkien started three stories set innthe second age, his first idea included Amroth and Agaldor a seer of the middle men, then he started a time travel story in which a father and his son traveled to Numenor and met their ancestor Elendil, then the story of Tal-Elmar, a young possibly native to later Gondor who gets caught by Numenorean Explorers and goes to Numenor and later travels all around the Westlands of Middle-Earth. He never finished any of these, they remain fragments... butbthey are never much mentioned by Content creators.

The fall on the Númenóreans would make make for an epic movie trilogy

Hey. Long-time viewer here. Space Marine 2 is wildly popular yet the majority of players have no clue what happened in the first game from a lore perspective. Perhaps a video covering the life and exploits of Captain Titus?

This video is far better than the crappy Amazon Rings of Power series.

I wanted to offer one correction to this otherwise fantastic video:
Galadriel, Celeborn, and Celebrian did not leave Eregion before the coming of Annatar. Galadriel actually gave regular scorn to Annatar while he was in Eregion, which Sauron endures with courtesy while attempting to raise a coup against her by means of the Smiths. This convinces/forces Galadriel to flee with her daughter (and Amroth, but he never gets brought up) to go to Lorinand and remain there, but Celeborn actually stays behind in Eregion because he will not suffer to enter the realm of the Dwarves, but Eregion is effectively taken over by Celebrimbor. The Rings then begin to be made after this (this last detail is kinda sketchy, but generally accurate).

At the very least, this is the version of the story as it is reported in Unfinished Tales, and I don't believe there is another version of the story (certainly not in the Appendices or the Silmarillion, and I can't find a reference to it in "The Peoples of Middle Earth" either). I think the mistake in the writing here is due to the fact that Tolkien wrote about how Galadriel came into contact with Lorinand and began to influence it to the point that Sauron could get nothing done there.

I always love the tale of Numenor, imagine being a Orc seeing these 6ft tall metal clad men just seemingly come from nowhere, must've been terrifying.

Ideas : Elric, Kull of Atlantis, Osten Ard, Chronicles of Amber, Barsoom, Starship Troopers (book version!), Tigana.

The Rings of Power would have been a massive success if it merely focused on Numenor, the Elves, and Mordor. Some timeline issues would have to be compressed, but the story would have remained whole and entirely epic.

Rings of Powers should take a note from this channel 😊

Most Numenorean Colonies were in harad, where they treated the natives bad, the natives of Eriador and Gondor were treated rather nicely as the Numenoreans recognized them as remote Kinsmen.