The Fall of Númenor

Literary work by J. R. R. Tolkien

978-0-00-853783-8OCLC1341269947Preceded byThe Nature of Middle-earth

The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-Earth is a 2022 fantasy work collecting all J. R. R. Tolkien's Second Age writings together. It was edited by Brian Sibley. The book 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 include writings on 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.

Sibley provided new introductions and commentaries. The book also has a cover, ten colour paintings and several line drawings by Alan Lee.^[1]

The book was published on 15 November 2022.^[1] The book's launch was timed to coincide with the release of the television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which is set in the Second Age.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "New Tolkien book: The Fall of Númenor to be published". The Tolkien Society. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022.

Middle-earth

J. R. R. Tolkien
- Bibliography
Canon
Legendarium
Outline

Works

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Beren and Lúthien
Bilbo's Last Song
The Children of Húrin
The Fall of Gondolin
The Fall of Númenor
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
- "Ainulindalë"
- Round World version
Unfinished Tales
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien

History of
composition

John D. Rateliff
- The History of The Hobbit
Christopher Tolkien
- The History of Middle-earth
  - 1–2 The Book of Lost Tales
    - Ælfwine
  - 3 The Lays of Beleriand
  - 4 The Shaping of Middle-earth
  - 5 The Lost Road and Other Writings
  - 6–9 The History of The Lord of the Rings
    - The Notion Club Papers
  - 10 Morgoth's Ring
  - 11 The War of the Jewels
  - 12 The Peoples of Middle-earth
Carl F. Hostetter
- The Nature of Middle-earth

Fictional
universe

Peoples, monsters	Ainur Maiar Balrogs Wizards Valar Dragons Smaug Dwarves Eagles Elves Half-elven Noldor Sundering Ents Hobbits Men Beornings Drúedain Dúnedain Orcs Trolls
Characters	First and Second Ages Celebrimbor Eärendil and Elwing Elendil Fëanor Fingolfin Finwë and Míriel Gil-galad Húrin Isildur Lúthien and Beren Melian Morgoth Thingol Tuor and Idril Túrin Turambar Ungoliant Third Age Elrond Galadriel Gandalf Glorfindel Goldberry Gollum Saruman Sauron Tom Bombadil
Places	First and Second Ages Beleriand Númenor Valinor Third Age Bree Esgaroth Gondor Harad Isengard Lonely Mountain Lothlórien Mirkwood Mordor Moria Rivendell Rohan The Shire Bag End
Objects	Mithril Palantír Red Book of Westmarch Rings of Power One Ring Silmarils Two Trees of Valinor List of weapons and armour

Analysis

Elements	Artwork Family trees Heraldry Languages Adûnaic Black Speech Khuzdul Quenya Sindarin Maps Poetry Scripts Cirth Sarati Tengwar
Themes	Anachronism Ancestry as guide to character Architecture Christianity Cosmology Death and immortality Decline and fall Economy England Environmentalism First World War Forests Frame stories Heroism Light Luck and fate Magic Mental illness Modernism Moral dilemma Music Naming of weapons Northern courage Paganism Plants Psychological journeys Quests Sound and language Time Trees
Literary	Tolkien's impact on fantasy Influences Beowulf Celtic Classical world Finnish language and literature Medieval Modern Norse Philology Shakespeare Prose style Ambiguity
Geographic	The Atlas of Middle-earth Journeys of Frodo A Map of Middle-earth

Adaptations,
legacy

Artists	Pauline Baynes Cor Blok Anke Eißmann Brothers Hildebrandt Jenny Dolfen Mary Fairburn Donato Giancola John Howe Tove Jansson Alexander Korotich Alan Lee Tom Loback Margrethe II of Denmark Ted Nasmith
Composers	Bo Hansson Johan de Meij Symphony No. 1 The Lord of the Rings Howard Shore Music of The Lord of the Rings film series Music of The Hobbit film series Music of The Rings of Power TV series Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Settings	Donald Swann The Road Goes Ever On Poems and Songs of Middle Earth The Tolkien Ensemble An Evening in Rivendell A Night in Rivendell At Dawn in Rivendell Leaving Rivendell
Other media	Middle-earth Enterprises Film Video games Tolkien Calendars Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien Things named after Tolkien and his works

Literary
criticism

The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien
Master of Middle-Earth
Picturing Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide
The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion
Perilous Realms
The Road to Middle-Earth
Splintered Light
Tolkien's Art: 'A Mythology for England'
Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings
A Tolkien Compass
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History
Tolkien's Legendarium
Tolkien and the Great War
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

J. R. R. Tolkien

- Bibliography
- Letters

Poetry
and songs

Songs for the Philologists (1936)
- "Bagme Bloma"
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953)
"A Walking Song" (1954)
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
- "Errantry"
- "Fastitocalon"
- "The Sea-Bell"
- "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late"
The Road Goes Ever On (1967)
Bilbo's Last Song (1974)
List of Tolkien's alliterative verse

Fiction

The Hobbit (1937)
"Leaf by Niggle" (1947)
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945)
Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
The Lord of the Rings:
- The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
- The Two Towers (1954)
- The Return of the King (1955)
Tree and Leaf (1964)
The Tolkien Reader (1966)
Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumous
fiction

The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
The Silmarillion (1977)
Unfinished Tales (1980)
Mr. Bliss (1982)
The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996)
Roverandom (1998)
The Children of Húrin (2007)
The History of The Hobbit (2007)
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)
The Fall of Arthur (2013)
The Story of Kullervo (2015)
Beren and Lúthien (2017)
The Fall of Gondolin (2018)
The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)
The Fall of Númenor (2022)

Academic
works

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925)
"The Devil's Coach Horses" (1925)
"Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" (1929)
"Sigelwara Land" (1932–34)
"Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale" (1934)
"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936)
"On Fairy-Stories" (1939)
"On Translating Beowulf" (1940)
Sir Orfeo (1944)
Ancrene Wisse (1962)
"English and Welsh" (1963)
Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer, 1966)

Posthumous
academic

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (translations, 1975)
Exodus (1981)
Finn and Hengest (1982)
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983)
Beowulf and the Critics (2002)
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary with "Sellic Spell" (2014)
A Secret Vice (2016)

Scholars

Writers	Biographers Humphrey Carpenter John Garth Popular authors Lin Carter Robert Foster Glen GoodKnight J. E. A. Tyler
Christian	Stratford Caldecott Matthew T. Dickerson Colin Duriez Peter Kreeft Joseph Pearce Fleming Rutledge Ralph C. Wood
Literary critics	Douglas A. Anderson Nicholas Birns Bradley J. Birzer David Bratman Janet Brennan Croft Patrick Curry Bradford Lee Eden Dimitra Fimi Jason Fisher Verlyn Flieger Michael Foster Wayne G. Hammond Randel Helms Thomas Honegger Charles A. Huttar Paul H. Kocher Stuart D. Lee Jared Lobdell John D. Rateliff Robin Anne Reid Christina Scull Amy H. Sturgis Richard C. West
Linguists	Anthony Appleyard Helge Fauskanger Carl F. Hostetter Tom Loback David Salo Arden R. Smith
Medievalists	Marjorie Burns Jane Chance Michael D. C. Drout Gergely Nagy Tom Shippey Elizabeth Solopova Sandra Ballif Straubhaar