Thread:ChazmanianDevil/@comment-26184570-20160826005120

The Sauron-controlled Numenoreans tople control of the Tauredain empire, and destroy any remnant of their ruling ethnicity - except their language (Yucatec Mayan). However, Numenor then sunk, they lost their base of opperations, and the Tauredain's allies swooped in and fucked them up. The other Tauredain tribes then pulled together at the start of the Third Age, using the old Empire's language as their common-tounge. This is why there are so many ruins in the Tauredain jungle, and why they always talk about the old Tauredain empire and how it's gone. However, this new, looser union of tribes is much stronger than the old Empire, because it's not a ham-fisted Empire. 