Physiques

[Galin]

Here's a question that no one yet at any other forum (those where I asked) has cared to comment on

But one never knows, so here goes: I'm wondering about an early conception, but I'm not sure one needs to have necessarily read The History of Middle-Earth series to comment: in very early description from The Book of Lost Tales:

'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, yet was Tuor taller than any that stood there. Indeed the Gondothlim were not bent of back as some of their unhappy kin became, labouring without rest at delving and hammering for Melko, but small were they and slender and very lithe.'

JRRT, The Book of Lost Tales, The Fall of Gondolin

It's also noted that the Noldoli that came forth to see Tuor marvelled at his stature and gaunt limbs.


So, how do folks interpret that? Can it be used to guess how tall Tuor might be, and how small the Gnomes (Noldoli) were?