The bringing of Nimloth to Númenor is described in a very broad account of the early days of Númenor that covers events unfolding over hundreds of years within a handful of paragraphs. Thus it is hard to pin down the date of the tree's arrival with any degree of certainty, except to say that it was probably within the early centuries of Númenor's existence.
The late King Tar-Palantir made a prophesy that when Nimloth died, the Line of Kings would come to an end. If the survival of Nimloth was tied so directly to the line of the Kings of Númenor, this might rather tenuously suggest that it dated back to the time of Tar-Minyatur the first King, but this connection is circumstantial at best.
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