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unless for some reason what the Elves of the West taught in DA runs quite contrary to the Elvish account...
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What you say is in itself certainly correct. But perhaps it's worth noting that the Elvish view we get in DA (i.e. that the world was always round) is not precisely what the Elves of the West taught - rather, it's the Mannish tradition as to what the Elves of the West taught. It is quite conceivable that the author of DA was confused or incorrect about what the Elvish belief was.
This raises the somewhat interesting question of just who (i.e. a person of what time and place) the author of DA is supposed to have been. Indeed, when one considers the issue of authorship, I think that something of a problem may arise. To wit, if the Akallabeth was written by Elendil (I believe this is said in UT, is it not?), an eye-witness to the later events of the story writing not long after they occurred, then it is difficult to imagine how or why the Akallabeth was created by combining those two previous accounts. DA is implied to have been written by non-Dunedainic Men, who are of course much farther removed from the story than Elendil (or indeed from any supposed Dunedainic author). It is patently absurd to imagine Elendil discovering that some hill-men of Middle-earth had their own garbled account of the fall of Numenor, studiously transcribing their version, setting it beside an account written by some loremaster of Rivendell or Lindon, and then dutifully redacting the two texts like an earnest Mediaeval monk.
Of course, it may be that the idea of Elendil as the author of the Akallabeth was not present when the note about the mixed tradition was written. However, a lesser form of the same problem persists even he is not the author. Why should any Dunedainic writer give such credence to DA?
The other possibility - which I find most likely - is that the reference to a 'mixed tradition' does not imply that the Akallabeth was actually intended to have compiled from an Elvish text and a Mannish text. Rather, this text, written by Elendil not long after the downfall, was not compiled from other sources but was written out by him
ab initio - but that it naturally drew both on Elvish lore acquired by the Numenoreans and on Mannish lore brought into Numenor by the Edain; and DA was an account written elsewhere, by other Men in other circumstances, but drawing ultimately on the same old Mannish lore. The problem with this is that if the text of DA that we have is considered the 'real' text, then it clearly
does have a shared textual history with the Akallabeth, since there are such strong similarities of wording.
The more I think about this, the more confusing it becomes.