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Hungry Ghoul
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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> That was about enough time ;-)
But I did not discover anything.
Well, nothing good, that is.
The two main motifs of the drowning of Númenor are Man challenging God's will; and Man trying to overcome mortality by force. Both attempts are doomed to fail and lead to desaster.
The apparent connection is of course Atlantis, and as we know from Letters, it inspired JRRT concerning Númenor.
Yet, the Atlantean myth did never reach Teutonic mythology. It did, however, reach Germany in an unpleasant way. The 3rd Reich-esoterics version of it is that the Germans are the descendants of the priest-magician-caste of Atlantis, who escaped from the drowning. The magical abilities of these Übermenschen got lost due to blood-mingling with lower humans. This also caused the downfall; the pure-blooded survived while the bastards died.
I won't even try to compare this 'theory' with JRRT. It is utter crap not worth thinking about; Arda does not deserve being compared with such a proofless, silly and most of all ignorant 'myth'; left alone its 'morals' which are as unsupportable as the rest of the 3rd Reich's ethics.
<h6> A furore Normannorum / libera nos domine / summa pia gratia / nostra conservando / corpora et custodia / de gente fera / normannica nos / libera quae nostra / vastat deus regna </h6></p>