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The White CouncilRe: Numénorean shipsTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White CouncilRe: Numénorean shipsTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by Martin Read on March 16, 2000 at 03:58:16 In Reply to: Re: Numénorean ships posted by Michael Martinez on March 16, 2000 at 03:36:51:
: Yes, there were already many families of the Faithful who had fled to Middle-earth in the years before the Downfall, and some of these were still of relatively pure blood. But Elendil's people are sort of held out as "special", being the last Numenoreans to actually live in Numenor before it was destroyed. : However, you guys might want to look up information on the Teserakonter class ships. I don't think they were ever built, and they were probably not suited for ocean travel, but they could give you an idea of just how immense ancient ship-builders came to imagine things to be. The ancients actually built all sorts of immense structures. Huge ships probably were not beyond their abilitiess. We did this some time back, should be in the archives. The largest wooden ships ever built were the 120+ gun "First Rate" warships of the Nineteenth Century. They had crews of around 1,000 men though in an emergency more could be squeezed in. The size was around the practical limits for producing sea-worthy craft using wood as a building material (long wooden ships droop at the ends "hogging" due to the lack of bouyancy at the pointy bits). Given emergency packing of people I would reckon that the upper limit for the numbers of Elendil's refugees would have been around 20,000, but probably less.
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