Physiques

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Galin

and if I can ask a follow-up, do you (or anyone) think that this part...


... 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?

It certainly seems so at first sight. Yet, when I think about it, The Sil isn't the book to compare "our" world with ME. TH has some comparissons, LOTR has very few, and mostly in the Shire chapters (eg, I remember something in FOTR about hobbits liking mushrooms even more than we do). But Sil seems strictly ME. If any comparisons are made, they are made with the SA and TA.

You said that it's a very early draft. So I'm guessing that at the time the Noldoli were more like Dwarves than Elves as we know them from the published works. Perhaps they were the shorter "kind" of Elves - compared to, say, the Vanyar (I don't know if Vanyar even existed at that stage...). And Men could be shorter than Men of the Second Age, for instance...

I don't know how to answer your question. I mean, it's clearly yes, but it's just not! It just doesn't work in the legendarium as I'm used to knowing it!