How late stage Numenor twists first age history, propaganda!
Ok so late stage Numenor hates elves, the valar, and are literally colonizing, enslaving the Atani of middle earth, and oppressing the faithful; They do all of this WITHOUT Sauron being involved
Now when Sauron does get involved it gets much worse, they build a temple for Morgoth and start sacrificing faithful people, the faithful also lose their only voice in government, Amandil who is removed from the kings council
To get a populace to believe any of these things are ok or even to think it's good, propaganda is used, a group of people is villanized and considered dangerous, they are blamed for problems that have nothing to do with them
Elves and the faithful are the ones who are villanized in this case
Now obviously they're not teaching first age history as it was, with the faithful and elves fighting against morgoths evil, true history is distorted and erased in late stage Numenor
So let's talk about how different events are taught in mid to late stage Numenor!
-Elros is still greatly admired by the people of Numenor but late stage Numenor changes almost every fact about him
-They erase him being Half-Elven, his pointed ears are broken off of statues of him are replaced with rounded ears, him being a Peredhel is called an "elvish lie" They argue he was a full Atani and the reason he lived so long is Namo was afraid of him (Late stage Numenor blames Namo for death existing, rather than him being the keeper of the dead)
-In Ar-pharazĂŽn's rule Elros is depicted as a blonde, for 3 main reasons: To make him and Elrond look less alike, to make him look more like Earendil, (They portay Elwing as unimportant and useless) and because I hc Pharazon as blonde and he wanted to make himself seem like the legitimate king instead of Tar-Miriel (who is dark haired)
-Elrond Peredhel is villanized and hated, he was banned from the island 20 years before elves were, he is called a liar for saying Elros us his brother and that the Numenoreans are his kin
-They don't have a good opinion of Peredhel in general
Luthien Tinuviel and Beren Erchamion
-Elves are fetishized before they are hated (both are dehumanizing, of course) Luthien in mid stage Numenor is generally only described with her beauty and her accomplishments are erased, Beren is portrayed liberating Tol Sirion instead of Luthien, her power in song is erased
-Her dancing in front of morgoth is stated to be Beren's plan, the dance itself is portrayed as easy and sensual instead of the grueling whirlwind it was
-Beren is depicted as stealing the silmaril during the dance instead of after morgoth is asleep, the silmaril is depicted in a chest behind the throne instead of the crown
-Luthien being half maia is erased and she portrayed as fully elvish
-Finrod Felagund is still there in mid stage Numenor
-Finrod is portrayed as the prince of Nargothrond instead of the king, he's also portrayed as being in love with Beren (Elven harems are a pretty popular concept in mid Numenor, I did say elves were fetishized)
-Note that the fetishization of elves continues in late stage Numenor alongside hatred
-Beren and Luthien is presented as a tragedy; Beren is depicted being killed by Melian and Thingol after he delivers the silmaril
-In mid stage Numenor Luthien is presented as naive and unaware and dies of grief as per canon but neither come back to life or meet again
-In late stage Numenor Luthien is depicted as a malicious seductress who purposely lead Beren to his death
-Morwen is depicted as a witch, just as the invaders of dor lomin did
-In late stage Numenor she is depicted as being part elf, with one of her parents being a Peredhel
-Usually depicted as cursing Dor Lomin to be barren and cold
-Often depicted as working with elves to lead HĂșrin to his death
-Blamed for the deaths of Brodda and Aerin and accused of burning down the house due to jealousy
-Often depicted as lusting after HĂșrin or accused of bewitching him
-HĂșrin and Morwen are not depicted as married in late stage Beleriand
-Sindarin is banned and so Morwen is given an Adûnaic name which translates to "Witch"
-Aerin is depicted as marrying Brodda of her own free will
-Their marriage is depicted as a loving one
-They still teach the part about Aerin bringing Morwen food but write it as Aerin being under a spell cast by Morwen
-All of Aerin's agency and bravery is erased
-Aerin is depicted as dying by Brodda's side in the fire, as said before Morwen is blamed for the fire
-Aerin is also called by an Andûnaic name which means "wife"
-Morwen is portrayed as the villainous witch while Aerin is depicted as the dutiful wife, they are nothing more than these roles in late stage Numenor
