Posted: January 08, 2000 at 14:18:27: by Michael Martinez
: If he did enter the service of the dark tower in 2951 he would
: still have been old at the time of he WR. Still he seems like a
: man in great vigour (to put it that way). If he was borne in
: the south in the third age his Numenorean blood would be very
: diminished. It just seems unlikely that his life span was that
: of a normal mans particularly since he had forgotten his
: original name.He shouldn't have had a normal man's life span or vigour. He was a Black Numenorean. They would have retained their vitality until just before they died. I sort of wonder what his ancestors would have thought of him, serving the enemy they had opposed.
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