![]() ![]() However, a small band of Númenóreans manage to escape to Middle-earth, led by the heroic chieftain Elendil and his sons. ![]() Thanks to the overweening pride and willfulness of certain leaders, though, the gods destroy the island through a watery apocalypse that forever sinks it. The most elite of humans, the Númenóreans generate an exceptional civilization. Within that hierarchical, genealogy -driven white world, the highest-ranking humans migrated to Middle-earth from an island called Númenor, whose inhabitants have ancestors that included elves, the most exalted of all creatures. The flood in question is a foundational episode in Tolkien’s intricate, fictional mythology of Middle-earth. Had the great fantasy writer narrowly escaped a natural disaster? A tsunami in his native South Africa, perhaps, or in the English archipelago where he had lived since early childhood? No. A vision of a gigantic wave engulfing a green landscape informed his dreams and memories, or so he claimed. ![]()
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