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Queens Of Numenor - Ar-Zimphrael

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Queens of Numenor Vol 5

This summer I wanted to colour this series, which if you remember, I inked last summer. Finally I submit the fifth one.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the end.
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HP
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HP pstc4200
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Sep 11, 2011, 1:27:23 PM
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Indeed, it is The End of the queens of Numenor in more than one way. Although The Akallabeth makes Ar-Zimpharel seem like a shoved-aside princess in a movie where the villain wins, a story fragment in The Peoples of Middle-Earth changed my views on this queen some. In the (unpublished) story fragment, Tolkien proposed the idea that Miriel & Pharazon had fallen in love, and she broke off an engagement with a kinsman of Amandil in order to marry her golden prince, who became Ar-Pharazon the Golden, the Great. So she blundered, but she blundered for love, and perhaps a chance to reduce the burden on the Faithful through her influence. In that case, the rise of Sauron as Ar-Pharazon's adviser probably was the end of her power in the realm, and she could only watch the corruption of her husband and lord from the sidelines.