The Line of Elros: twenty-five rulers of Númenor
From Elros Tar-Minyatur, who chose mortality, to Ar-Pharazôn, who broke the Ban and drowned the island: twenty-five rulers, numbered I to XXV by the source itself. Reading them in order is reading the fall of Númenor happen slowly — the sceptre held too long, the Elvish tongues forsaken, the royal names turning from Quenya to Adûnaic. The order is one of rule, not of descent: three women ruled in their own right, and more than once the sceptre passed sideways rather than down.
Order fromUnfinished Tales, The Line of Elros
- ElrosFirst King of Númenor, twin brother of Elrond, who chose the fate of Men.
- Vardamir NólimonLearned heir who yielded the crown
- Tar-AmandilThird ruler, grandson of Elros
- Tar-ElendilRuler who opened voyages eastward
- Tar-MeneldurStar-watcher who resigned the throne
- Tar-AldarionSeafarer-king who changed succession law
- Tar-AncalimëFirst reigning queen of Númenor
- Tar-Anárioneighth ruler of Númenor, son of Tar-Ancalimë
- Tar-Súrionninth ruler of Númenor, third child of Tar-Anárion
- Tar-Telperiënsecond Ruling Queen of Númenor
- Tar-Minastireleventh ruler of Númenor, builder of the tower on Oromët
- Tar-Ciryatantwelfth ruler of Númenor, the Shipbuilder
- Tar-Atanamirthe Great, thirteenth ruler of Númenor
- Tar-Ancalimonfourteenth ruler of Númenor
- Tar-Telemmaitëfifteenth ruler of Númenor
- Tar-Vanimeldëthird Ruling Queen of Númenor
- Tar-Alcarinseventeenth ruler of Númenor
- Tar-Calmacileighteenth ruler of Númenor
- Tar-Ardaminnineteenth ruler of Númenor, in Adûnaic Ar-Abattârik
- Ar-Adûnakhôrtwentieth ruler of Númenor, first to take an Adûnaic title
- Ar-Zimrathôntwenty-first ruler of Númenor
- Ar-Sakalthôrtwenty-second ruler of Númenor
- Ar-GimilzôrNúmenórean king hostile to Eldar
- Tar-PalantírThe far-sighted King who turned Númenor back to the Valar
- Ar-PharazônLast King of Númenor
25 stops; each line is the entry's own epithet, not a summary written for this page.