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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 8176945" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>I'm not sure why sounding "straight out of the Old Testament" equates to a classist message, especially when so much of the Bible deals with themes of liberation from injustice and oppression. That being said, I think that yes, the biblical Flood is probably one of the main influences on the Downfall of Númenor along with the legend of Atlantis. The Tower of Babel also comes to mind, as does the Garden of Eden. I think Babel is an apt comparison because, like much of Tolkien's subject matter, the story of Númenor is especially concerned with power. At the end of the Second Age, the Númenoreans are at their height and represent humanity in the fullness of its power. Literally nothing on earth can stop them. Their fleet, the Armament, is the greatest fighting force that ever existed or will exist. And they, like most men, are consumed by the fear of death, the lie of Morgoth. The whispering council of Sauron has turned their king, Ar-Pharazôn, the most powerful king who ever lived, into an Antichrist, capable of conquering even the deathless lands of Aman, the image (but not the reality) of Arda Unmarred. Once conquered by mortals, rather than conferring immortality upon them as Sauron has promised, it would itself cease to be deathless, and death would enter the last place untouched by that corrupting influence. The Valar cannot wield their power against Ilúvatar’s Children to prevent this. Either they will be unhoused from their habitation on earth, or the Númenoreans’ seat of power must be destroyed. In this way, Ilúvatar has liberated Valinor and the world from the oppression of Númenor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 8176945, member: 6787503"] I'm not sure why sounding "straight out of the Old Testament" equates to a classist message, especially when so much of the Bible deals with themes of liberation from injustice and oppression. That being said, I think that yes, the biblical Flood is probably one of the main influences on the Downfall of Númenor along with the legend of Atlantis. The Tower of Babel also comes to mind, as does the Garden of Eden. I think Babel is an apt comparison because, like much of Tolkien's subject matter, the story of Númenor is especially concerned with power. At the end of the Second Age, the Númenoreans are at their height and represent humanity in the fullness of its power. Literally nothing on earth can stop them. Their fleet, the Armament, is the greatest fighting force that ever existed or will exist. And they, like most men, are consumed by the fear of death, the lie of Morgoth. The whispering council of Sauron has turned their king, Ar-Pharazôn, the most powerful king who ever lived, into an Antichrist, capable of conquering even the deathless lands of Aman, the image (but not the reality) of Arda Unmarred. Once conquered by mortals, rather than conferring immortality upon them as Sauron has promised, it would itself cease to be deathless, and death would enter the last place untouched by that corrupting influence. The Valar cannot wield their power against Ilúvatar’s Children to prevent this. Either they will be unhoused from their habitation on earth, or the Númenoreans’ seat of power must be destroyed. In this way, Ilúvatar has liberated Valinor and the world from the oppression of Númenor. [/QUOTE]
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