Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26429944-20180208085334/@comment-29773086-20180225093722

Jurassic Sean wrote: That is what I think:

1. Númenoreans of the South are a great idea

2. Do they have to be Black Númenoreans? I think they are just normal Númenoreans.

3. Maybe they just have 9 pure-blooded families of the highest class

4. Maybe they hate Mordor (because of Sauron) and Gondor (because Elendil maybe betrayed their leader in the escape from Númenor and they came because of a storm to Far Harad) 1- Are they? Let's think critically about your other points, and then decide.

2- The Faithful are not "normal Númenóreans". They are a minority among their race. The division is betwewn the King's Men (later called Black Númenóreans) and the Faithful, all of whom are "normal" Númenóreans, not between Black Númenóreans and "normal" Númenóreans. And the colonies in the far south of Middle-earth were founded by the King's Men, not by the Faithful, whose colony was Pelargir, further north.

3- This seems unlikely in light of what Tolkien said about the Black Númenóreans merging with the Middle Men of Harad and dwindling.

4- The Black Númenóreans, if any significant number remained in the south, would serve and worship Sauron. As already discussed, they would not of the Faithful. If they were, however- if we were to suspend disbelief and suppose that the Faithful had founded a colony among those loyal to the King- there would be no reason for them to count Gondor as an enemy. Elendil's tall ships were the only ones to escape the Downfall, and all of those are accounted for, as they formed the Realms in Exile.