Names: The name Elendil may be interpreted either as "Elf-friend" or as "Star-lover"
Titles: The last lord of And�ni� in N�menor, founder of the realms of Arnor and Gondor. Called The Tall, and The Fair
Lineage:
Descended from E�rendil
and Elwing,
and of the Line of
Elros
Tar-Minyatur, though not of the ruling house. His father was
Amandil,
and his sons were Isildur
and Anarion.
Biography:
Amandil and his son, Elendil, were the last leaders of the loyal
party in Numenor (also called the Faithful), when it fell under
the
domination of Sauron.
For it came to pass in those days, that the last
king of N�menor, corrupted by the lies of Sauron, broke the Ban
of the Valar going up with war to wrest everlasting life from the
Lords
of the West. But when Ar-Pharazon set foot upon the shores of Aman
the
Blessed, the Valar
laid down their Guardianship and called upon the One, and the
world was
changed. N�menor was thrown down and swallowed in the Sea.
Yet by the grace of the Valar Elendil and his
sons
and their people
were spared from the ruin of that day, and when the devouring wave
rolled over the land and N�menor toppled to its fall, they
escaped from the Downfall with nine ships, bearing a seedling of
Nimloth, the White Tree of N�menor, and the palant�ri,
the Seven Seeing-stones (which were made by F�anor,
the mightiest
of the Eldar in skill of hand when the world was young),
...and the great wind took them, wilder than any wind that Men had known,There they established in the North-west the N�menorean realms in exile, Arnor and Gondor. Elendil was the High-King and dwelt in the North at Ann�minas, and the rule in South was committed to his sons, Isildur and Anarion. And thus were founded the fair cities of Minas Anor, Minas Ithil and Osgiliath the Citadel of Stars.
roaring from the West and it swept his ships far away, and they fled before
the black gale out of the twilight of doom into the darkness of the world.
And the deeps rose beneath them in towering anger, and waves like unto
mountains moving with great caps of writhen snow bore them up amid the
wreckage of the clouds, and after many days cast them away upon the shores
of Middle-earth.
For this good at least they believed had come
out
of the ruin, that
Sauron also had perished. But it was not so. Sauron was indeed
caught
in
the wreck of N�menor, so that the bodily form in which he long
had
walked perished; but he fled back to Middle-earth, a spirit of
hatred
borne
upon a dark wind. Sauron was unable ever again to assume a form
that seemed fair to men, but
became black and hideous and his power thereafter was through
terror
alone. He re-entered Mordor and hid there for a time in silence.
But his anger
was great when he learned that Elendil, whom he most hated, had
escaped
from him and was now ordering a realm upon his borders. Therefore,
after
a time he made war upon the Exiles, before they should take root.
But
Sauron
struck too soon, before his own power was rebuilt, and the Last
Alliance
led by Elendil for Mankind and Gil-Galad
for the Elves had the
victory. They passed into Mordor and laid siege to Barad-Dur
for
seven years, but
suffered grievous loss before Sauron was overthrown for, at the
final
battle on the slopes of Mount Doom, Gil-Galad was slain, as well
as
Elendil and his son Anarion. But Sauron also was thrown down and,
with
the hilt-shard of Narsil, Isildur cut the Ruling Ring from the
hand of
Sauron and took it for his own. So ended the Second Age.
Here ends the story of Elendil, but still his
deeds
live in tales
and songs.
