Thread:Sinthorion/@comment-26295802-20151125184326

Continue here? In The Lost Road, Numenoreans only had gunpowder after Sauron took over: basically they used his devilry and fell knowledge together with Numenor's abundance of natural resources to get things like steam ships and canon. I assume the "Numenorean tactics described elswhere" were before Sauron? 