Thanks Galadriel! my first response
and if I can ask a follow-up, do you (or anyone) think that this part...
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'Tis written that in those days the fathers of the fathers of Men were of less stature than Men now are, and the children of Elfinesse of greater growth,...'
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... means we can guess that Tuor was shorter than the average man of Tolkien's day, yet still taller than the Noldoli back when Gondolin existed?
Or is the reader not meant to employ this information in this way?