Numenorean Colonies

[Mat_Heathertoes]

There are intimations in 'Of The Rings of Power & The Third Age' in The Silmarillion which reveal the existence of many colonies in the South and East of Middle-Earth.

And Sauron gathered to him great strength of his servants out of the east and the south; and among them were not a few of the high race of Númenor. For in the days of the sojourn of Sauron in that land the hearts of well nigh all its people had been turned towards darkness. Therefore many of those who sailed east in that time and made fortresses and dwellings upon the coasts were already bent to his will....