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2.(or was it three? I forget sorta. it was the one about isildur) See, the stewards became King because the king was sorta dead at the time. By the descendant of Isildur, it could mean aragorn was a VERY distant relation someone just decided would become the heir for some reason. Heck, he could be his 11th cousin or something. I personally preferred the stewards for some reason. Perhaps it's because boromir's one of my favourite characters.

And anyhow, going on to some other stuff. The men of the south are the wild men who have all those oilophants. I assume they are the same wild men as the men who captured Umbar from the Gondorians sometime during the second or third age (sniff...poor gondorians!). The wild men are in league with sauron and saruman etc. and don't have much (if any) relation to the Numenoreans, either the exiles or the original people. The wild men are said to also inhabit Dunland, which does not come from the word 'dun' which means west in sindar. The word 'dunedain' has no relation in meaning or anything to Dunland, it simply means 'man of the west'

So anyhow, about the men of the west. Remember the afformentioned Numenor (or Atlante)? It was in the west. Coincidentally Gondor is also in the west (NO! you don't say!) and therefore 'man of the west' could be reffering to a man of Numenorean descent or a man of Gondor or just any man in particular (not counting the wild men!).

And there you have it. Sorry if I explained it after somone else, I just love talking about this stuff!