How Did the Valar Destroy Numenor?

[Gil-galad Elven King]

in the fall of Numenor how did the Valar destroy it

[Grond]

from The Silmarillion, Akallabeth
Then Manwë upon the Mountain called upon Ilúvatar, and for that time the Valar laid down their government of Arda. But Ilúvatar showed forth his power, and he changed the fashion of the world; and a great chasm opened in the sea between Númenor and the Deathless Lands, and the waters flowed down into it, and the noise and smoke of the cataracts went up to heaven, and the world was shaken. And all the fleets of the Númenóreans were drawn down into the abyss, and they were drowned and swallowed up for ever. But Ar-Pharazôn the King and the mortal warriors that had set foot upon the land of Aman were buried under falling hills; there it is said that they lie imprisoned in the Caves of the Forgotten, until the Last Battle and the Day of Doom.

But the land of Aman and Eressëa of the Eldar were taken away and removed beyond the reach of Men for ever. And Andor, the Land of Gift, Númenor of the Kings, Elenna of the Star of Eärendil, was utterly destroyed. For it was nigh to the east of the great rift and its foundations were overturned, and it fell and went down into darkness, and is no more. And there is not now upon Earth any place abiding where the memory of a time without evil is preserved. for Ilúvatar cast back the Great Seas west of Middle-earth, and the Empty lands east of it, and new lands and new seas were made; and the world was diminished, for Valinor and Eressëa were taken from it into the realm of hidden things.
Eru destroyed it.

[Lady Melody]

He is also known as the Iluvatar, anyway... (just in case you dunno).

[Gil-galad Elven King]

Originally posted by Chibi Melody
He is also known as the Iluvatar, anyway... (just in case you dunno).

ok i knew that