Ar-Pharazon

Ar-Pharazôn the Golden was the twenty-fifth and last King of Númenor. He was the son of Gimilkhâd, who was the younger brother of the twenty-fourth King, Tar-Palantir. 
== History ==
Ar-Pharazon was born SA 3118 to Gimilkhâd. While he would marry Tar-Míriel, they had no children.
Durning his reign, he was said to be the greatest Numenorean king: he was generous and made the realm prosperous and mighty. So much so, in fact, that he was able to capture Sauron and take him prisoner to Númenor.
Ar-Pharazon was also the most vain king: he usurped the throne, and took his own cousin, Miriel, by force as his queen. Fearing his own mortality, he allowed himself to fall to Sauron's false promises of immortality, leading him to establish a worship of Morgoth, including human sacrifice. The "faithful" - those Numenoreans who opposed this worship and Ar-Pharazon's disregard for the Valar - were heavily persecuted by the King and his Men.
At last, he was compelled by Sauron to take his armada and sail to Valinor in an attempt to overtake it and claim immortality. In so doing, he forced the hand of the Valar to call upon Eru to change the world. Arda was made round, Valinor made inaccessible to mortals and Numenor was lost in a deluge.
Luckily, the faithful led by Elendil secretly set sail to Middle Earth beforehand, and established the realms of Arnor and Gondor. Sauron, too, survived the deluge and returned to Mordor before being overthrown by Elendil's son, Isildur, in the Battle of Dagorlad.
He died SA 3319 on the shores of Aman at the age of 102.
== The Lord of the Ring ==
=== The Fellowship of the Ring ===
His name is seen on one of the scrolls that Gandalf is looking through when finding information about the One Ring.