I was thinking of Richard III as I was writing :-)
He wasn't the only sufferer. A very similar thing happened to Richard II. Obviously monastic chroniclers didn't like the name Richard *g*. You could say that Elendil was more like King Alfred, who kept control of his own publicity!
I'm convinced Númenor had at least begun to industrialize.
It certainly should have done. No matter what Tolkien's prejudices against industrialisation may have been, no society could have been completely technologically static.
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He wasn't the only sufferer. A very similar thing happened to Richard II. Obviously monastic chroniclers didn't like the name Richard *g*. You could say that Elendil was more like King Alfred, who kept control of his own publicity!
I'm convinced Númenor had at least begun to industrialize.
It certainly should have done. No matter what Tolkien's prejudices against industrialisation may have been, no society could have been completely technologically static.