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Documented the Rulers of Númenor from the kingdom's foundation in II 32 to its Downfall in II 33191
Race
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Family
The Rulers of Númenor were descended from the House of Elros
Settlements
Held in Númenor, presumably in the royal city of Armenelos
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Scroll of Kings

The record of the rulers of Númenor

The official scroll in which the names of the twenty-five rulers of Númenor were recorded. The Scroll dated back to the beginning of Númenor's royal line, and it is known that Elros, the first King, had his royal name Tar-Minyatur entered into it. Over the centuries, the Scroll became a preserve of tradition, to the extent that when the twentieth ruler Ar-Adúnakhor chose to take his name in Adûnaic, the Quenya version Tar-Herunúmen was nonetheless entered into the records.

Though the Scroll of Kings is commonly referred to as a single scroll, there are some indications that in fact several copies existed, as would seem prudent for such an important document. The Scroll is not mentioned after the Downfall, and it seems almost certain that it was lost in the destruction of Númenor.


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The formal primary Scroll of Kings must have been in Númenor when the island kingdom met its end, meaning that it must have been destroyed in II 3319. It is unknown whether any copies of the Scroll survived to be preserved in Middle-earth. No such copies are directly described, but it is notable that we nonetheless have detailed records of all the Rulers of Númenor. The fact that those records exist would seem to imply that, whether or not a direct copy of the Scroll survived, at least some of the history that it held must have been indirectly preserved.

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