"The betrayal of my brother stings— but I sail on. At last we sight a wild continent— the one called Lurvan... But we do not take possession in the name of Erkol. We like the new land and decide to settle— to build our own city-state... We find outcroppings of stone slab, which we trim to build the first stone houses of Argo City..."
— Val-El's ship's log, The Krypton Chronicles
Then the Edain set sail upon the deep waters, following the Star;11 and the Valar laid a peace upon the sea for many days, and sent sunlight and a sailing wind, so that the waters glittered before the eyes of the Edain like rippling glass, and the foam flew like snow before the stems of their ships. But so bright was Rothinzil that even at morning Men could see it glimmering in the West, and in the cloudless night it shone alone, for no other star could stand beside it. And setting their course towards it the Edain came at last over leagues of sea and saw afar the land that was prepared for them, Andor, the Land of Gift, shimmering in a golden haze. Then they went up out of the sea and found a country fair and fruitful, and they were glad. And they called that land Elenna, which is Starwards; but also Anadûnê, which is Westernesse, Númenórë in the High Eldarin tongue.
The mantle of the Pioneers has fallen on our shoulders to sustain civilisation in a primitive country.
