Numenor and Atlantis

  First I want to thank my latest viewers fore waiting fore this latest blog. I want to also let you all know of a new blog that I am working on that will be unleashed to the public soon. This blog will be a sequel to the lord fo the rings utalizing what information I have gathered from all of Tolkien's books availible to me in brail. Yes if any of you didn't know I am visually impared and often have to first convert my matterial from brail to print threw a few complex computer conversions. But anywhay now to my main point. I wanted to talk abbout the island of Numenor and its fall. Numenor was an island given to mankind after our war with morgoth acording to the Silmarillion and the appendicies but mankind grew corupt under the will of Sauron and the last king of that isle whent to capture eternal life by claiming the blessed realm for himself. As a result the isle sank beneath the waves and many numenorions died but Elendur and his folk of the faithful to the Valar escaped and set up the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor. Well you have likely heard me write about this before in other blogs and then again maybe not but this time i want to compare this legend to Atlantis. Now this comparison has been made before many times in the past. Sure the similarities are very striking but so too is the the reasons for the two island's downfalls. Plato who first wrote our atlantis myth says that the isle of Atlantis was a place of advanced technoligy and was prosperious when they dared and begin a conquest of Athens. In responce the gods punished Atlantis and "in a single day and night" the island was lost to the depths. Numenor was also a very prosperious place with amazing technoligy. Well unlike some more crazy atlantis myths witch cliam that Atlantians had flying machines, Numenor had only lots of knoledge and horses but they also where grate warriors like the Atlantians but only when they where called to arms after the rise of Sauron in Mordor and they also like the atlantians also where destroyed by devine intervention after an attempted conquest of war. Not to get riligious or anything but we have to remember the famious fraze "Thoes who live by the sword die by the sword." Of course being a collecter of armor and weapontry out of Tolkien's world as well as a huge fan of Star Wars light sabers i kind of get worried looking at this most incredible statement from Crist. Even Moses faught against enemies with the sword and so did other religious leaders but like Crist in this statement and like other religious leaders like the Buhdda AKA Sidartha Tolkien favors the none violent aproatch at times. But Tolkien also knew that when things are in danger and freedom is at risk well knives and swords are kind of cool to battle the forces of darkness. i am afraid i may have gotten a bit phylisofical and if i have please forgive my thoughts. After all i kind am rambling on a little. I just hope that you have seen at least a few more connections amoung Plato and Tolkien in this case as well as Tolkien's view on war.