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burra, where did you get that? I've never heard of that little tidbit of information before.
It is said that Ar-Pharazon began to feel the first "pulls" of old age while Sauron was in Numenor, and that was partially the reason why he listened to him so much. I'm assuming that by the time the invasion of Aman occurred, he was well into old age, and was desperate for immortality. The greatest of the delusions that most of the Numenoreans were laboring under was that if they lived in Aman, or partook of the produce of Aman, they would be immortal. That wasn't true. It was the immortal qualities of the people on Aman that made the land what it was, not the other way around. Of course, I don't think that was what Ar-Pharazon wanted to listen to.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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