Númenor seemed like a nice place until a Dark Lord decided to tear down the will of the people living there and pushed them into war with the gods. That, an island full of corgis and more on this week's episode of Talking Tolkien where Jonathan, Katie and Chase read the Akallabêth of the Silmarillion and contemplate why Sauron is in such a blasphemous mood. 

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