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Originally Posted by Galin
If you mean almost eight feet (gleaned from Unfinished Tales) there is other late text which de-biggens Elendil... well, I consider it variant from Unfinished Tales anyway.
'Aragorn, direct descendant of Elendil and his son Isildur, both of whom had been seven feet tall, must nonetheless have been a very tall man…, probably at least 6 ft. 6; and Boromir, of high Númenorean lineage, not much shorter (say 6 ft. 4).' JRRT
Published by Hammond and Scull in their Reader's Companion to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know if it's possible to find out which text is later than the other however.
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Hmm. I did mean the eight foot height.
I meant ludicrous by modern standards though; I don't have any real
problem with an almost 8' Elendil, as the Numenoreans were notably taller than modern humans. (Apparently 6'4" was 'man-height'; the average US male height is 5'9", so Numenoreans in general were huge.)