The Black Númenóreans tie on to Sauron, in addition to to Ar-Pharazôn. They rose after Sauron appeared within the metropolis in his “honest type” — as a human man — and commenced manipulating each Númenór’s individuals and its king. Particularly, Tolkien’s letters describe Ar-Pharazôn changing into scared of demise in his previous age, and questioning mortality. This want to beat demise and dwell a life nearer to the elves’ prompted discord throughout the metropolis, and the individuals who adopted the king — and had been corrupted by Sauron’s affect — had been finally known as the Black Númenóreans.
Sauron’s function in all of that is fairly disturbing, and sounds quite a bit just like the trippy manipulation ways he used on Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) within the season finale of “Rings of Energy.” He talked the king and people round him into worshiping the darkish determine Morgoth, after convincing them that their god, Eru Ilúvatar, was false. In Tolkien’s Letter 131 he describes the rise of this darkness, writing:
“A brand new faith, and worship of the Darkish, with its temple below Sauron arises. The Trustworthy are persecuted and sacrificed. The Númenóreans carry their evil additionally to Center-earth and there turn out to be merciless and depraved lords of necromancy, slaying and tormenting males; and the previous legends are overlaid with darkish tales of horror.”
A number of the Black Númenóreans may additionally have ties to the Nazgûl, the 9 ringwraith servants of Sauron, though Tolkien’s works by no means make that specific. Judging by the black flags that flew ominously over town on this week’s episode, although, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy” will quickly be telling us every little thing we ever wished to know in regards to the Black Númenóreans after which some.
