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   From: rast2@yahoo.com   
      
   Stan Brown wrote...   
   > Elrond in turn had only one child, and she remained childless until   
   > the Fourth Age.  The line of Elros is less well known to us, but it   
   > seems a reasonable assumption that Elendil and his issue were the   
   > only descendants of Elros (and therefore of Lúthien) to survive the   
   > Fall of Númenor.   
      
   They took nine ships;  I've assumed, based on Steve's logic in his OP,   
   that most of the other passengers could trace ancestry back to Elros.   
      
      
      
   What I want to know is how much "many" is, as in:   
      
   "Yet in her choice the Two Kindreds have been joined; and she is the   
   forerunner of many in whom the Eldar see yet, thought all the world is   
   changed, the likeness of Lúthien the beloved, whom they have lost."   
      
   She has three, or at most seven, elven descendants, depending on how   
   you count Eluréd, Elurín, Elladan, and Elrohir.   
      
   Could "many" refer to the fourth age Dúnedain?  Are the Elder really   
   hanging around Middle-Earth to see them, and how much resemblance do   
   those guys still have to Lúthien?   
      
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