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Old 05-05-2011, 10:30 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by Mnemosyne View Post
How would you explain Imrahil's beardlessness, then?
I'm not saying the Dol Amroth-ites aren't meant to have some Elvish blood, but just that it appears no-one's sure exactly how they acquired it. So it doesn't have an"official" standing, if you see what I mean.

The main thing, though, I think, is that at the time Tolkien wrote the Appendices, he didn't consider Silvan Elves to be Eldar anyway.
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