Great Armament
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The Great Armament refers to the vast military built-up conducted between the years SA 3310 and SA 3319 by Ar-Pharazôn and his loyal soldiers, to assail the Valar and claim immortality from them.
For a period nine years, many loyal shipwrights and armorers toiled in workshops and drydocks building ships and forging weapons of war. Much of work seems to have been performed in the western part of Númenor in or near the harbors, since that is where the ships would launch from.[1] The armament was possibly the greatest armament in the history of Arda at the time until perhaps the days of the Last Alliance over one-hundred years later. It included a vast armada of sturdy warships and no doubt thousands of heavily armed soldiers. The flagship of the armada was the Alcarondas and the sea throne of the king while on his journey.
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- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth pgs. 44 & 45
