Cirdan was I believe the oldest Elf in M-E at least among the leaders, he may well have had friends and realitves that were among the first to reach the shores of M-E.
There is a very late writing of JRRT's on Cirdan in Peoples of M-E [ HoME 12]p.385 in 'Late Writings'
and if you do a search for Cirdan + beards in the search function we have you will prob find a grand discussion or 2 and make mr. underhill very happy [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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