Exactly, Maeglin. Numenorian qualities and attributes are not based soley on having one parent from Gondor. Many, many Gondorians, probably the great majority, were not necessarily Numenorian, though they were of Numenorian decent. People in Minas Tirith rgarded true Numenorians as regal and almost supernatural, as seen in the Prince Imrahil, in who the blood ran true. Faramir, Denethor, and ,of course, Aragorn had the True Numenorian Air, while Beregond, Furlong, Boromir, and I assume Theoden's wife, did not.
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There long the golden leaves have grown, upon the branching years, while here beyond the sundering seas, now fall the Elven-tears...
but if of ships I now would sing, what ship would come to me, what ship would bear me ever back, across so wide a sea?
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