About the tragic fate of the Kingdom of Númenor, also called Atalantë and Akallabêth, that Tolkien narrated in the fourth part of his Quenta Silmarillion; it says that the númenóreans (known by the elves as "high men", because they descend from the Edain, the firsts men that appeared in Middle Earth) was tricked by Sauron to abandon the (true) faith of Eru Ilúvatar and the Valar, and reject the Ilúvatar "Gift of Men" (that is, short lifes and mortality); thus, his last kings (influenced by Sauron lie) started a selfdestructive race to reach immortality that finally ends with the downfall of Númenor island by Ilúvatar himself, then removed Aman and the Hall of Mandos forever from the world, and, at last, He spherized the earth, that previously was flat...
From the survivors númenoreans families that stay loyal to the Valar and Elves, starts the lineage of the Dúnedain, the founders of Gondor; and from the few infidels númenoreans that survive, a festering resentment of Elves and Valar drives them to serve Sauron in the distant Mordor. For example, the infamous herald called "Mouth of Sauron" belonged to the númenoreans.
In the illustration, a re-imagined character who I like to think that he was not fall because of hate of Ilúvatar or Sauron lies, rather, he fall because of his strong sense of loyalty and honor; and now, he roams the Ithilien forest like a brown and silver living-shadow, not serving Sauron, not serving the Free Peoples of Middle Earth, and without any possibility of redemption...
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