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Tal-Elmar was the title of an incomplete narrative left unfinished by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The story, the protagonist of which is Tal-Elmar himself, offers a glimpse of the Númenórean colonization of Middle-earth from the perspective of its indigenous inhabitants, and was published in the final volume of The History of Middle-earth, The Peoples of Middle-earth, in the seventeenth chapter.
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- "Beginnings of a tale that sees the Númenóreans from the point of view of the Wild Men. It was begun without much consideration of geography (or the situation as envisaged in The Lord of the Rings). But either it must remain as a separate tale only vaguely linked with the developed Lord of the Rings history, or — and I think so — it must recount the coming of the Númenóreans (Elf-friends) before the Downfall, and represent their choice of permanent havens. So the geography must be made to fit that of the mouths of Anduin and the Langstrand."
- —Tolkien's 1968 note on Tal-Elmar
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