Eruannlass wrote:[...] One facial detail that jumps out at me is that Queen Tar-Vanimeldë's lips seem to be turn up in a bit of a smirk, in a way that seems contradictory to her name. Since I've yet to read the Annals of Numenor and other supporting material, I wonder if that was intentional, based on the Lore, or if that's just the way the artist drew her face.
XVI Tar-Vanimeldë
She was the third Ruling Queen; she was born in the year 2277 and ruled for 111 years until her death in 2637. She gave
little heed to ruling, loving rather music and dance; and the power was wielded by her husband Herucalmo, younger
than she, but a descendant of the same degree from Tar-Atanamir. Herucalmo took the sceptre upon his wife's death,
calling himself Tar-Anducal, and withholding the rule from his son Alcarin; yet some do not reckon him in the Line of
Kings as seventeenth, and pass to Alcarin. Tar-Anducal was born in the year 2286 and he died in 2657.
--- From "THE LINE OF ELROS: KINGS OF NÚMENOR (from the Founding of the City of Armenelos to the Downfall)",
Unfinished Tales
A more concise summary is:
Tar-Vanimeldë was the third Queen to hold the Sceptre of Númenor, but she cared little for her royal duties, and gave them over to her husband Herucalmo. Their son was Alcarin, who was by law his mother's heir, and should have become King of Númenor on her death. Instead, Herucalmo seized the Sceptre for himself, clinging to the reins of power under the name Tar-Anducal. After twenty years, Tar-Anducal died in his turn, and Alcarin finally came into his inheritance, ruling Númenor under the name of Tar-Alcarin.
--- The Encyclopedia of Arda
