#never forget this man made Numenor a slave holding kingdom

[oops-i-tolkiened-again]

Imagine you’re Elrond riding along the coast of Middle Earth. Imagine you’re Elrond and you willingly stray from your mission just by a day or so’s riding—because you can. Because if you detour you’ll hit a Númenorean colony town.

You get to this town just in time to see people being loaded onto the merchant cargo ships.