The story was abandoned, but Tolkien reused the characters and events. One of the appearances was to be in Númenor just before its fall, with the father as Elendil and the son as Herendil, later called Isildur. Tolkien began a time-travel story, The Lost Road, in which a father and a son were to reappear time and again in human families throughout history. This set the stage for the Ring to pass to Gollum and then to Bilbo, as told in The Hobbit that in turn provided the central theme, the quest to destroy the Ring, for The Lord of the Rings. He was killed by orcs, and the Ring was lost in the River Anduin. He cut the Ring from Sauron's hand, but instead of destroying it, was corrupted by its power and claimed it for his own.
He fled with his father when the island was drowned, becoming in his turn King of Arnor and Gondor. Tolkien's Middle-earth, the elder son of Elendil, descended from Elros, the founder of the island Kingdom of Númenor. The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales
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