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Old 07-05-2003, 10:11 AM   #9
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Sillabub dear, Aragorn was most definitely NOT 41 when the Fellowship set out. He was about 88/89 when the Fellowship set out.

And Sauron wasn't captured on a Numenorean raiding expedition, and they didn't become pirates. Ar-Pharazon found out that Sauron was calling himself Lord of Middle-earth, and decided to get rid of this "upstart" once and for all. He took a huge navy to Middle-earth, landed at the harbors near Umbar, and set out to kill Sauron. When they saw the Numenoreans coming, all of Sauron's minions fled, leaving the Big S. by himself. That was when he decided that guile would work best, and was made a hostage.

The Numenoreans did become greedy, but they never became pirates. They didn't raid homesteads on the coast looking for gold and riches. They had plenty of that back home. What they wanted was immortality, not riches.
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