If you were a Númenórian...

***Jonathan*** · 04-30-2003, 06:03 PM

I've just re-read Akallabêth and it made me think a little.
If you were a Númenórian, what would you do and what would you think of Death and the Ban of the Valar (the ban that prohibbited the Númenóreans from sailing to Aman)?

Manwë told the Númenóreans that the death of mortals was a great gift from Illúvatar. Unlike the elves the mortals were not bound to the world, they were free to leave it after death. If you were a Númenórean, would you see this as a good thing? Or would you prefer being immortal like the elves and live in Illúvatar's world forever?

If you'd accepted death, Illúvatar's Gift of Men, would you try to stop the Númenóreans from reaching Aman?

If you wanted to become immortal, would you yourself want to set your foot in Aman, rejecting the Ban of the Valar?

04-30-2003, 06:03 PM	#1
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	If you were a Númenórian... I've just re-read Akallabêth and it made me think a little. If you were a Númenórian, what would you do and what would you think of Death and the Ban of the Valar (the ban that prohibbited the Númenóreans from sailing to Aman)? Manwë told the Númenóreans that the death of mortals was a great gift from Illúvatar. Unlike the elves the mortals were not bound to the world, they were free to leave it after death. If you were a Númenórean, would you see this as a good thing? Or would you prefer being immortal like the elves and live in Illúvatar's world forever? If you'd accepted death, Illúvatar's Gift of Men, would you try to stop the Númenóreans from reaching Aman? If you wanted to become immortal, would you yourself want to set your foot in Aman, rejecting the Ban of the Valar? __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻