Just as a clarification- by "your original contention", I mean this:
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Originally Posted by cellurdur
I think you are making too much of an effort to make the statements contradict each other. As things stand the later works are all in agreement.
Elendil's height is not reduced in anyway. In the Unfinished Tales he gave us an accurate exact height for Elendil being around 7'10. In notes elsewhere he generalised that Isildur and Elendil had been 7ft. The statements once more are not contradictory unless you want them to be.
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