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Melko Belcha
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Letters #131
The Numenoreans must have still know about the War of Wrath between the Valar and Melkor, but throughout time the true reasons for the war might have been deluded by Man's own imagination. Sauron preached to them that Melkor was the true God and Iluvatar was only an invention of the Valar to help them control the lesser races. He tried to make everything that the Elves and the Valar taught to Men was only a lie, that the war that happened in the First Age was because of the Elves and not Melkor, and that Numenor was only made for Men because of the fear the Valar had for the every growing strength of Men.
Sorry if I got confusing, but I'm trying to go off memory of the different versions of The Fall of Numenor. Alot of the stuff wasn't rejected, but just didn't make it into the final Akallabeth.
The Numenoreans must have still know about the War of Wrath between the Valar and Melkor, but throughout time the true reasons for the war might have been deluded by Man's own imagination. Sauron preached to them that Melkor was the true God and Iluvatar was only an invention of the Valar to help them control the lesser races. He tried to make everything that the Elves and the Valar taught to Men was only a lie, that the war that happened in the First Age was because of the Elves and not Melkor, and that Numenor was only made for Men because of the fear the Valar had for the every growing strength of Men.
Sorry if I got confusing, but I'm trying to go off memory of the different versions of The Fall of Numenor. Alot of the stuff wasn't rejected, but just didn't make it into the final Akallabeth.
Inderjit S
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Myths Transformed
So Sauron underestimated the power of eru/the Valar and over-estimated his masters. He also belived he would come back as powerful as ever in the Dagor Dagorath.
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