General map of Anadûnê, the island of
Númenor in the
Great Sea (slightly conjectural)
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General map of Anadûnê, the island of
Númenor in the
Great Sea (slightly conjectural)
1The island of Númenor was raised out of the Great Sea and given as a gift to the Edain in reward for their aid in the Wars of Beleriand. Númenor itself is an Elvish name meaning simply 'Western land' (and often rendered into the Common Tongue as 'Westernesse'). In Adúnaic, the language of the Númenóreans themselves, this same name was translated Anadûnê, again meaning 'Western Land'.
The name Anadûnê derived ultimately from adûn, 'west', a word borrowed by the Edain from the Elves (the same word also appears in the name of their tongue, Adûnaic, which means 'West-language'). As well as Anadûnê, they also commonly referred to their island realm as Yôzâyan, the Land of Gift.
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The general geography of Anadûnê (or Númenor) is well established. The only conjectural elements on this map are the location of the city of Ondosto, and the precise course of the road that ran through it. Both of those elements are established in text, but they not recorded on any extant map.
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