Thread:High Prince Imrahil/@comment-26210095-20151124211152/@comment-26295802-20151125185713

Here's one reference, there's another that I'll try to find. . . I went ahead and typed out the whole paragraph for you. I put proof in bold text.

". . . At first, He [Sauron] revealed only secrets of craft and taught the making of many things powerful and wonderful; and they seemed good. Our ships go now without the wind and are made of metal that sheareth hidden rocks, and they sink not in calm or storm; but they are no longer fair to look upon. Our towers grow stronger and climb ever higher, but beauty they leave upon the earth. We who have no foes are embattled with impregnable fortresses - and mostly on the West. Our arms are multiplied as if for an agelong war, and men are ceasing to give love or care to the making of other things for use or delight. But our shields are impenetrable, our swords cannot be withstood, our darts like thunder and pass over leagues unerring. Where are our enemies? We have begun now to slay one another. For Numenor now seems narrow, that was so large. Men covet, therefore, the lands that other families have long possesed. They fret as men in chains.

Wherefore Sauron hath preached deliverance; he has bidden our king to stretch forth his hand to Empire. Yesterday it was over in the East. To-morrow-it will be over in The West." -Elendil to his son