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46. Nu'menorean Tile and Textiles |
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See the note to no. 43. Such artefacts would have been among the precious things saved from the Drowning of Nu'menor in the ships of Elendil and his sons Isildur and Ana'rion and brought to Middle-earth, as is told in the Akallabe^th (The Silmarillion p. 276). The Nu'meno'rean tile was used as the centrepiece on the back of the cover of The J. R. R. Tolkien Calendar 1974, and both tile and textiles as reproduced here appeared in The Silmiarillion Calendar 1978.