[Inderjit Sanghera]

Thanks, for the great answer Doug!

Well, I've been thinking about it, and I feel that the Numenoreans were as close as you will ever get to men as they were originally intended by Eru. There, lifespan could reflect the original lifepsan of men, until it was cut short, by Eru, and the birds and beasts do not reject them, like the way they did with man in his early fall. The Numenoreans were the only people wiht a organised religion, as such. With their fading, the fading of the memory of Eru, the Valar, Elves, Draves and Ents will soon pass to myth, so that men may become less wise.