Editing Elendil (section)

== Adaptations ==
[[File:Elendil_in_the_Last_Alliance.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Elendil was played by [[Peter McKenzie (actor)|Peter McKenzie]] in [[Peter Jackson]]'s 2001 film ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', fighting a gigantic [[Sauron]] to the death.<ref name="Pringle 2013"/><ref name="Elvy 2020"/><ref name="Tally 2016"/>]]

In [[Peter Jackson]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', Elendil is portrayed by [[Peter McKenzie (actor)|Peter McKenzie]]. He appears briefly in the prologue,<ref name="Welch 2021">{{cite web |last=Welch |first=Alex |title=Precious Amazon's Lord of the Rings series could reveal one kingdom's epic origin story |url=https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-show-gondor |website=Inverse |access-date=19 February 2022 |date=25 April 2021}}</ref> where he is killed by Sauron.<ref name="Pringle 2013">{{cite news |last=Pringle |first=Gill |title=Bret McKenzie: Conchord flies into Prejudice |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/bret-mckenzie-conchord-flies-into-prejudice-8827458.html |access-date=11 August 2020 |date=20 September 2013}}</ref> The action differs from the book, where Gil-galad and Elendil heroically defeated Sauron, at the cost of their own lives, allowing Isildur to take the Ring without difficulty. In the film, Sauron defeats Elendil, and Isildur fights Sauron, the action of cutting off his finger and the Ring serving to vanquish Sauron.<ref name="Elvy 2020">{{cite web |last=Elvy |first=Craig |title=Lord of the Rings: Peter Jackson's Movies Made Isildur More Heroic |url=https://screenrant.com/lord-rings-isildur-sauron-fight-movie-change-heroic/ |website=ScreenRant |access-date=19 February 2022 |date=17 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="Gateway">{{cite web |title=Elendil |url=http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Elendil |website=[[Tolkien Gateway]] |access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref> Tolkien instructed that "Sauron should not be thought of as very terrible. The form that he took was that of a more than human stature, but not gigantic", though he "could appear as a commanding figure of great strength of body and supremely royal demeanor and countenance."<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=Letter #246 to Mrs Eileen Elgar, September 1963 }}</ref><ref name="Tally 2016"/> Jackson chooses to make Sauron much larger than Elendil for his final battle. The scholar of English literature [[Robert Tally]] comments that it is ironic that Jackson may have come closest to Tolkien's intentions in the prologue by representing Sauron in humanoid form, while he is a disembodied eye everywhere else in the film series.<ref name="Tally 2016">{{cite book |last=Tally |first=Robert T. |author-link=Robert Tally |chapter=Tolkien's Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings |title=Popular Fiction and Spatiality |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |location=New York |year=2016 |pages=125–140 |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/31988699}}</ref>

In the 2022 television series, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power]]'', Elendil is played by [[Lloyd Owen]].<ref name="Coggan 2022">{{cite magazine |last=Coggan |first=Devan |title=Welcome to Númenor: Get an exclusive look at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power |url=https://ew.com/tv/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-numenor-first-look/ |date=13 July 2022 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |publisher=Meredith Corporation |access-date=14 July 2022}}</ref><!--we could crop a detail of Elendil on horseback as a fair-use image from this source, with NFUR--> The show introduces Elendil as a Númenórean nobleman, who serves as a sea captain. He is a widower with three adult children: sons Isildur and Anárion, and a daughter Eärien.<ref>{{cite magazine  |last=Coggan |first=Devan |title=Rings of Power star Lloyd Owen talks Elendil and geeking out over Elvish  |date=14 September 2022 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |url=https://ew.com/tv/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-lloyd-owen-elendil/ |access-date=17 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web  |last=Farnell |first=Chris |title=The Rings of Power: What Elendil Means for the Future of Lord of the Rings |date=9 September 2022 |website=[[Den of Geek]] |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/lord-of-the-rings-of-power-elendil-lloyd-owen/ |access-date=17 September 2022}}</ref>