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Morgoth, and after the victory of the Lords of the West those
that were not destroyed fled back east into Middle-earth. There
many of their race wandered still in the unharvested lands, wild

and lawless, refusing the summons alike of Fionwe and of
Morgoth to aid them in their war. And the evil men who had
served Morgoth became their masters; and the creatures of
Morgoth that escaped from the ruin of Thangorodrim came
among them and cast over them a shadow of fear. For the gods
[> Valar] forsook for a time the Men of Middle-earth who had
refused their summons and had taken the friends of Morgoth to
be their lords; and men were troubled by many evil things that
Morgoth had devised in the days of his dominion: demons, and
dragons and ill-shapen beasts, and the unclean orcs, that are
mockeries of the creatures of Iluvatar; and the lot of men was
unhappy.
But Manwe put forth Morgoth, and shut him beyond the
World in the Void that is without; and he cannot [> could not]
return again into the World, present and visible, while the Lords
are [> the Lords of the West were] enthroned. Yet his will
remaineth, and guideth [> remained, and guided) his servants;
and it moveth [> moved] them ever to seek the overthrow of the
gods [> Valar] and the hurt of those that obey [> obeyed] them.
When Morgoth was thrust forth, the gods [> Valar] held council.
The Elves [> Eldar] were summoned to return into the West;
and those that obeyed dwelt once more in Eressea, the Lonely
Isle; and that land was named anew Avallon: for it is hard by
Valinor and within sight of the Blessed Realm. But to men of the
three faithful houses rich reward was given. Fionwe son of
Manwe came among them and taught them; and he gave them
wisdom, and power, and life stronger than any others have of
mortal race. [Added: and the span of their years, being un-
assailed by sickness, was thrice that of Men of Middle-earth,
and to the descendants of Hurin the Steadfast even longer years
were granted, I even to three hundreds [> as is later told].](1)
$2 A land was made for them to dwell in, neither part of
Middle-earth, nor of Valinor; for it was sundered from either by
a wide sea, yet it was nearer to Valinor. It was raised by Osse
out of the depths of the Great Water, and it was established by
Aule and enriched by Yavanna; and the Eldar brought thither
flowers and fountains out of Avallon, and they wrought gardens
there of great beauty, in which at times the children of the Gods
[> Valar] would walk. That land the Valar called Andor, the
Land of Gift; and by its own folk it was at first called Vinya, the
Young; but in the days of its pride they named it Numenor, that
is Westernesse, for it lay west of all lands inhabited by mortals;

yet it was far from the true West, for that is Valinor, the land
of the Gods. But the glory of Numenor was thrown down [>
overthrown] and its name perished; and after its ruin it was