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Earendur returned home to Andunie in time for Erukyerme. He hang Narsil, at his home; and intended to stay home a long time.
At Erukyerme, he travelled with his family to the capital. The new King Tar-Ardamin led the ceremony, but the he had not much to say at the summit and quickly directed the people to start to walk back to Armenelos.
Half way down, where the path is directly on top of Armenelos before taking another turn around the mountain and running into the capital, Earendur felt a hand on his back. It was Gimilzagar.
"Can I have a word with you, sire?" Gimilzagar said.
May of the people from Andunie stopped, but Earendur made a hand signal to indicate they should continue. They all did.
"Certainly!" Earendur said.
"I see you survived the winds of Middle Earth," Gimilzagar said.
"I did;" Earendur answered.
"Where is your ship, then?" Gimilzagar asked.
"It was lost, I am afraid;" Earendur said,
"What happened to your men?" Gimilzagar persisted.
"Most of them were lost in Middle earth, too," Earendur said emotionless.
"But I see so many of them her in Numenor;" Gimilzagar said.
Earendur was about to answer when Tar-Ardamin passed with many servants around him. Tar-Ardamin did not pay much attention to the two, but the last of his followers stopped. It was his son Adunakhor.
Both Earendur and Gimilzagar bowed to Adunakhor, but the new Heir to the throne did not react.
Adunakhor then continued his descend towards the capital.
Gimilzagar smiled, he said; "You seem to have lost the favor of the king Heir."
Earendur said; "I seem to lost favor of all the Kings Men, but I do not understand why, as I am no threat to them."
Gimilzagar said; "but are you a loyal subject to them? Are you surprised that we find it odd, that you and your soldier survived the storm of the Bay of Belfalas,"
Earendur looked at Gimilzagar; "did you serve your king better by losing half you men failing to regain control of the Harnen?"
Gimilzagar smile vanished; "You betrayed us, you left the mission, against the Kings order."
Earendur was not afraid, he answered; "And you created your own orders, not giving by our king, killing innocent people, who were not servant of the dark load."
Gimilzagar walked close to Earendur; "I was looking for you!" he said.
Earendur said; "Do you remember this, then?"
He pulled the elven knife, which Tal-Elmar had found in Agar, and threw it at the feet of Gimilzagar.
"You left this when you killed the population of Agar," Earendur stated.
Gimilzagar picked up the knife. A devious smile formed in his face. "That is right, Earendur, I forgot! I have never liked elven made weapons, so I left it."
Earendur said; "I can get witnesses to the White Tower. They will state that you slaughtered all, enemies or no enemies. This was against the will of the old king, and I do not believe Tar-Ardamin will look kindly upon this."
Gimilzagar answered; "Maybe not, but Adunakhor surely will."
Earendur ended by stating; "The king is Tar-Ardamin, let us go and let him settle this."
Earendur started to walk down the path. However, Gimilzagar was not ready to let him go, he took the knife and ran after Earendur, with the intention to kill him.
However, Gimilzagar missed his target. It was, as the knife itself would not touch child of Silmarien. Instead Gimilzagar lost grab of it, and it fell to the ground.
Earendur quickly grabbed his attacker, lifted him up, and threw him over the side of the path. Gimilzagar fell several hundred feet towards the capital. His body came to rest on the path not far from the Kings house and the garden behind it. It lay there until the first of many people travelling down the path came back.
Tar-Ardamin was horrified by the accident was had hid his brother. This was almost unheard of in Numenor. At the council meeting after Erukyerme, the king ask for help in finding outwhat had happened to Gimilzagar, but no one could shed light on this.
As the council left, the earl of Andunie, Vorondur felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Adunakhor, the King Heir."
Vorondur looked at him but did not speak.
Adunakhor said; "Your son, sire. I believe he killed my uncle."
Vorondur looked at him; "these are serious accusations. The King believe the death of Gimilzagar to be an accident. My son is back in Andunie; do you want me to lay these accusations in front of him?"
Adunakhor said; "you fool me not, elf-lover! When I become King, I will deal with you. Numenor will be free of your kind."
Earendur stayed in Andunie. He was engaged next year, and married three years after.