But it is revealed that Aragorn is one of the Dúnedain—a descendant of Númenor—blessed with long life. Éowyn is in disbelief because it is said that Aragorn's race had passed into legend. Aragorn says there are very few Númenóreans left by the time of the War of the Ring.
History. Aragorn is a direct descendent of the Faithful Numenoreans from the line of Elendil. Because he is a Numenorean, he is related distantly to Elrond through Elros. Aragorn was born in the year TA 2931 to the Ranger Arathorn and his wife Gilraen.
The Dunedain are descendants of Numenoreans. In the North, the leader of the dunedain Rangers in Arnor is Aragorn, son of Arathorn, who is descended in direct line from Elendil, son of Amandil, who emigrated from Numenor to Middle-Earth at the end of the Second Age.
Elros, the twin brother of Elrond, became the first king of Númenor, marking the beginning of Aragorn's kingly lineage. Elros was approximately the 63rd great-grandfather to Aragorn. This also means that Elrond was his equally distant great-uncle, making Arwen (his wife) his first cousin, 64 times removed.
All other Men - those of Laketown, Dale, Bree, and Rohan, those of Dunland who allied with Saruman, those of Harad and Rhun who served Sauron, the lower classes of Gondor, and most of the Corsairs of Umbar - are descended from Men who never went to Numenor, either because they chose not to or because they were never ...
The first White Tree came from a fruit that Isildur, at great personal risk, managed to steal from Nimloth the Fair, the White Tree of Númenor, before that one was destroyed at Sauron's insistence.
After the war ended Elendil was dead. Therefore Isildur, his eldest son, was then the (last) rightful king of both Gondor and Arnor, and therefore his descendant Aragorn was also the rightful king of both kingdoms.
The story was abandoned, but Tolkien reused the characters and events. Isildur features briefly in voiced-over flashback sequences of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The video game Middle-earth: Shadow of War departs from Tolkien's narrative by having Sauron make Isildur into a Nazgûl or ringwraith.
The Númenóreans made Umbar, the harbour city in the south of Middle-earth, into a great fortress and expanded Pelargir, a landing in Gondor near the Mouths of the Anduin. The "King's Men" among the Númenóreans became jealous of Elves for their immortality, resenting the Ban of the Valar, and sought everlasting life.
The Lord of the Nazgûl appears as the Witch-king of Angmar during the Third Age and is instrumental in the destruction of the Northern kingdom of Arnor. in his notes for translators, Tolkien suggested that the Witch-king of Angmar, ruler of a Northern kingdom with its capital at Carn Dûm, was of Númenórean origin.
Isildur was born in Númenor in the year SA 3209 of the Second Age. His younger brother Anárion was born in SA 3219. They lived at the haven of Rómenna on the east coast of the island of Númenor. Their father was Elendil and their grandfather was Amandil, the Lord of Andúnië.
She had Númenorean ancestors through her grandmother Morwen of Lossarnach which would allow her to live a long life. ↑ Éowyn was known as "Lady of Rohan" in Rohan, but as "White Lady of Rohan" in Ithilien (due to her pale complexion).
A legend says that the Wizard Gandalf had brought such a stone, called the Elessar, from Valinor. He gave the Elessar to the Elven Lady Galadriel and remarked prophetically that she would pass it to another, who will also be called Elessar. From this would come Aragorn's royal name Elessar (Quenya for "Elfstone").
The Numenorean bit is somewhat of a red herring - Numenoreans (other than Elros only) were not Half-Elven. The issue comes from the fact that the whole Half-Elven thing was… complicated.
Elrond was the half-elven son of Eärendil and Elwing, the father of Arwen, and the Lord of Rivendell who consistently fought against Sauron throughout the Second and Third Ages. He was the twin brother of Elros, who later became the first king of Númenor.
Besides not having the will to destroy the Ring, pushing Isildur into Mount Doom would have had some practical consequences. In another passage from The Silmarillion, Elrond and Círdan counseled Isildur to destroy the Ring, but he refused, saying, "This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's.
As his "lifeforce" is imbude in the ring which prevents him from going into the Elven afterlife, and as such keeps him in the mortal plane. But he is a wraith in the first game, before his new ring is ever created. The ritual done to Tallion at the beginning of Shadow of Mordor summoned Celebrimbor into Tallion's body.
The sons of Eärendur quarreled, and while Amlaith was the Heir of Isildur and his father, the other sons broke the kingdom into three separate realms. Of these, Amlaith ruled Arthedain, the only that was ruled by the Heir of Isildur. The other kingdoms were slowly overcome by dark forces of the evil land of Angmar.
The line of the kings of Numenor eventually became the kings of Gondor and Arnor, and it is from that line that Aragorn is descended. Which makes Elrond his uncle and Arwen his cousin, an unholy number of generations back.
In reality, the ancestors of the Rohirrim were the Éothéod, a tribe of the Northmen. Those were Middle Men, related to the Edain of the First Age, who did not go to Beleriand, like the other Edain, who were later rewarded with the island of Númenor by the Valar.
Gondor was founded by the brothers Isildur and Anárion, exiles from the downfallen island kingdom of Númenor. Along with Arnor in the north, Gondor, the South-kingdom, served as a last stronghold of the Men of the West.
Galadriel was born in Valinor in the Years of the Trees 1362, before the First Age. She is the daughter of Finarfin, prince of the Noldor, and Eärwen, princess of the Teleri. Galadriel was Finarfin and Eärwen's only daughter and their youngest child. She had three older brothers: Finrod Felagund, Angrod, and Aegnor.
