eagerly awaiting my copy of the book here in France but would be very interested to see Alan Lee's (glorious!) artwork in high quality, all that I have found was the medium/low resolution images here...
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Catego ... _The_Fall_of_N%C3%BAmenor

(Open to UK residents only)

Alan Lee shared the cover/frontispiece illustration on social media:

thank you Urulóke...better resolution using the orig parameter value
(is it not glorious!)
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhEjeroXoAM_iIZ.jpg:orig

Thanks nuttyrave, updated (I pulled from facebook originally but this is definitely better)

The little silhouette on the right side is Sauron, according to Brian Sibley itself on the TolkCast.

It is Sauron, waving his fist, Alan Lee mentioned that he is glad that people spotted him.

The map of numenor is colored by Nicolette Caven. Mildly interesting that she's gone from redrawing Tolkien's color illustrations in black and white (in The Hobbit), to redrawing Tolkien's black and white illustrations in color.

I was seeing “images in the sky”, figuratively speaking…

At the top right where the wave is cresting over Numenor, I thought the foam resembled a huge figure reaching out an arm over the island. It reminded me of one of Tolkien’s illustrations of Sauron’s outstretched arm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauron ... _Tolkien_illustration.jpg