What is the point of view?

The novel is told in the third person point of view as if a narrator is telling the story to a group of listeners. This creates an omniscient narrator that knows every part of the story from the ancient legends of the Valar to the outcome of Tuor’s journey. The narrator’s voice is heard throughout each piece and they frequently comment on things that the characters could never know. For example, when Tuor sees the Great Sea for the first time, the narrator writes “now some say that he was the first of Men to reach the Sea and look upon it and know the desire it brings; but I know not if they say well” (40). Another example comes from the document that Christopher calls “The Last Version” (145). When Tuor walks out of Turgon’s old home, the narrator says, “none were there to see him, as he gazed westward, gleaming in the silver and gold, and he knew not that in that hour he appeared as one of the Might of the West, and fit to be the father of the kings of the Kings of Men beyond the Sea…” (163). This also implies that the narrator received these stories either through supernatural means, such as visions provided by the Valar, or legends passed down through the generations.