  umbar is a fictional place in j. r. r. tolkien's legendarium. it was a great haven and seaport to the far south of gondor in middle-earth. 'umbar' was a nameâof unknown meaningâgiven to the area by its original inhabitants. the nÃºmenÃ³reans adopted the name, probably aware that 'umbar' was the quenya word for 'fate'. ==fictional context== umbar was located on the south-western coast of middle-earth. the great cape and land-locked firth of umbar south of the bay of belfalas formed a natural harbour of enclosing rock, but the "great fortress of nÃºmenor" (the lord of the rings) within it was not built until . it was only by this time that the evil necromancer sauron had dared to threaten nÃºmenor: "...the strength of his terror and mastery over men had grown exceedingly great, he began to assail the strong places of the nÃºmenÃ³reans upon the shores of the sea." like the earlier new haven in enedwaith far to the northwest, and the later harbour pelargir on the river anduin, umbar became a base from which nÃºmenÃ³rean influence spread over middle-earth. it was at umbar that the last king of nÃºmenor, ar-pharazÃ´n the golden, landed in s.a. 3261, to challenge sauron. after the downfall of nÃºmenor 58 years later, umbar remained in the hands of the nÃºmenÃ³reans, in essence a realm in exile alongside arnor and gondor. but unlike these others, umbar had been used by the "king's men", who had turned to the worship of sauron's former master melkor in the last days of nÃºmenor. these "king's men", unfriendly to the elves and to their fellow nÃºmenÃ³rean survivors who were allied to the elves, became known as black nÃºmenÃ³reans. two black nÃºmenÃ³rean lords, herumor and fuinur, were probably from umbar, as at the end of the second age they became very powerful amongst the haradrim, a neighbouring people. their fate is unknown, but they likely shared sauron's defeat at the hands of the last alliance of elves and men. the rulers of umbar retained much infl
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