Ciryatur

Ciryatur was the commander of the Númenórean fleet sent by Minastir, the heir of Queen Tar-Telperiën, to aid Gil-galad in the War of the Elves and Sauron, which arrived in Second Age 1700.

Ciryatur had divided his forces and sent a great part of them directly to Lindon. When the fleet arrived in Lindon, Gil-galad’s Elves had been beaten back to the river Lhûn and were holding the line of the river together with a Númenórean force that had been stationed on the shores of Lindon earlier after Gil-Galad feared that Sauron would invade Eriador. Reinforced by the fresh forces from Númenor the Elves of Lindon and the Númenoreans defeated the forces of Sauron at the river Lhûn and drove them back to the south-east. The forces of Sauron were further decimated in a battle at the Sarn Ford at the river Baranduin.

Sauron was driven further to the south-east to Tharbad at the crossings of the river Gwathló where he was reinforced by more of his troops that had come at his orders from the south-east. But Ciryatur had sent a strong force to the small Númenórean harbour of Vinyalondë at the mouth of the Gwathló. This second Númenórean force appeared in the rear of Sauron's army at the Gwathló. In the ensuing Battle of the Gwathló, the host of Sauron was completely routed and Sauron himself barely escaped. A final battle in eastern Calenardhon stripped Sauron of all but a tiny bodyguard. The Dark Lord retreated into Mordor and plotted vengeance upon the Númenóreans.