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Minastir was at his wife's deathbed. He was crying.
"I beg you dear wife to stay with me longer. I have much more to accomplish and I want you to witness it;" he said.
"I have no doubt in you, my husband, but it is only for the line of Elros to live beyond three hundred years. I have felt your love and seen my son grew to be a man. Please let me go, I wish to rest beyond the circles of Arda."
Ciryatan was waiting outside the house in Romenna. Minastir came out. Ciryatan knew what had happened.
Minastir said almost shouting; "Why are we not told, why we should live on beyond the circles of Arda. The blessed people meet in the halls of Mandos. They call it a gift, but it is a gift they themselves does not understand. I want to know our destiny!"
Ullume was buried at Noirinan, as many queens before her. After the burial Minastir asked Ciryatan to travel northwest with him instead of back to the Armenelos. At the southern coast of the bay of Andunie was a hilltop higher than others at the Andustar Cape were. It was close to the sea, and the ground to the north fell steep to the bay many hundreds feet below. Here workers were constructing a tower.
Minastir was proud; "Look son what I am accomplishing. This tower will be my legacy as the tower at Sorontil was for Tar-Meneldur."
Ciryatan was surprised; "Why would you build a tower here, where there are no enemies?"
Minastir answered; "This tower will be high enough, so that every Numenorean can travel here and see the tower at Avallone. Maybe we can even speak to them by means of fire. I saw them when I was a child, Ciryatan, and I want them to return. If they learn about my victories in Middle Earth, I am confident they will."
Minastir walked with Ciryatan to the top. They could see Meneltarma in the east, but nothing in the west.
"We will build it higher;" Minastir said; "We do not have the strange people to carve the ondo stones any more, but it matters not we can use other stones."
Ciryatan was not impressed; "Why you would build where there are no enemies I do not understand. I intent to return to Middle Earth and build there. Eriador is in ruins after the Dark Lords attacks, and I intend to prevent him from ever entering this land again."
At the last council meeting of the year, Ciryatur representing Mittalmar stated; "Eriador is protected in the north by the elves under Elrond, lieutenant of the Great King, to the east the longbeards are protecting the mountains passes, but in the south, where the enemy entered Eriador it is left for man to guard. I intend to build a tower of a height, unseen by anyone in Middle Earth, to establish Numenor as a permanent power of Middle Earth."
After the meeting, Minastir sad alone in the throne room. He took the shine from Tar-Telperien and opened it. He tried one of the rings, but as the former king, he saw only a short glimpse, maybe an eye, of someone trying in vain to reach out to him.
"I will keep you at me tower at Oromet;" the king said.
