Numenoreans

Numenoreans were an ancient people that lived outside Middle-Earth. They started off as a peace-loving people and were very close to the elves. Just like elves they sailed the calm sea's and shared many cultural similarities. This all stopped once they Numenoreans began sailing to middle earth. After seeing the Dunedain the Numenoreans began to be aggresive and take over the peoples of middle earth. During this age the Numenoreans defeated Sauron and his armies and forced him to surrended. One of the Generals of the Numenoreans brought him back to his homeland before their king. Sauron corrupted the king's mind and from that point fourth changed the path of the Numenoreans. They built temples for Morgoth, and stopped their friendship with the elves, the worship of Valar was stopped in it's entirity. Eventually the Numenoreans sailed onto the un-dying lands there Valar destroyed the armies of Numenor.