Вот бы пример миссионерства, особенно нуменорцев в Средиземье.
Акаллабет:
"Thus it was that because of the Ban of the Valar the voyages of the Dúnedain in those days went ever eastward and not westward, from the darkness of the North to the heats of the South, and beyond the South to the Nether Darkness; and they came even into the inner seas, and sailed about Middle-earth and glimpsed from their high prows the Gates of Morning in the East. And the Dúnedain came at times to the shores of the Great Lands, and they took pity on the forsaken world of Middle-earth; and the Lords of Númenor set foot again upon the western shores in the Dark Years of Men, and none yet dared to withstand them. For most of the Men of that age that sat under the Shadow were now grown weak and fearful.
And coming among them the Númenóreans taught them many things. Corn and wine they brought, and they instructed Men in the sowing of seed and the grinding of grain, in the hewing of wood and the shaping of stone, and in the ordering of their life, such as it might be in the lands of swift death and little bliss.
Then the Men of Middle-earth were comforted, and here and there upon the western shores the houseless woods drew back, and Men shook off the yoke of the offspring of Morgoth, and unlearned their terror of the dark. And they revered the memory of the tall Sea-kings, and when they had departed they called them gods, hoping for their return; for at that time the Númenóreans dwelt never long in Middle-earth, nor made there as yet any habitation of their own. Eastward they must sail, but ever west their hearts returned."
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Описание острова Нуменор":
"Но поначалу команды огромных нуменорских кораблей долгое время сходили на берег и приходили к людям Средиземья без оружия; и хотя были у них на борту и топоры для рубки леса, и луки для охоты ради пропитания на диких безлюдных берегах, нуменорцы не носили их, когда искали встречи с людьми этих краев. И велико было их сожаление, когда Тень пала на берега, и люди, с которыми они подружились, стали бояться или проявлять злобу, обращая железное оружие против тех,
кто им его дал."