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Man-of-the-Wold · 12-14-2002, 02:04 AM

Yes, I agree that this matter is not really quantifiable or linear, but the percentages where they are large are worth speculating about. Still, there was nothing especially Elven about Aragorn, in any case, he was a man, and except for the sort of thing that one might observe with someone like Imrahil, Aragorn's children were probably all too human (with your essential Dunedain attributes, of course) in terms of basic appearance and whatever else, and not necessarily better than their decendents ten generations away, who might have then had only 0.4% elven blood rather than nearly 40%.

Actually, the case of Imrahil's ancestry as further explained in the Unfinished Tales is interesting. Seemingly, after the question was first dealt with (in the case of Earendil, Elwing, and their/Elrond's children) the offspring of Elf-man couplings were to be men, at least they were if not passing over the Sea with their Elven parent.

12-14-2002, 02:04 AM	#7
Man-of-the-Wold Wight Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: With Tux, dread poodle of Pinnath Galin Posts: 239	Yes, I agree that this matter is not really quantifiable or linear, but the percentages where they are large are worth speculating about. Still, there was nothing especially Elven about Aragorn, in any case, he was a man, and except for the sort of thing that one might observe with someone like Imrahil, Aragorn's children were probably all too human (with your essential Dunedain attributes, of course) in terms of basic appearance and whatever else, and not necessarily better than their decendents ten generations away, who might have then had only 0.4% elven blood rather than nearly 40%. Actually, the case of Imrahil's ancestry as further explained in the Unfinished Tales is interesting. Seemingly, after the question was first dealt with (in the case of Earendil, Elwing, and their/Elrond's children) the offspring of Elf-man couplings were to be men, at least they were if not passing over the Sea with their Elven parent. __________________ The hoes unrecked in the fields were flung, __ and fallen ladders in the long grass lay __ of the lush orchards; every tree there turned __ its tangled head and eyed them secretly, __ and the ears listened of the nodding grasses; __ though noontide glowed on land and leaf, __ their limbs were chilled.

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