From: le@top.put.com   
      
   temujin  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 02:16:01 +0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein   
   >  wrote:   
   >> Since TLotR was published nearly 65 years ago,   
   >> longevity has changed.   
   >   
   > Can we say natural longevity was a mark of piety, class and/or   
   > birthright in tolkien's view?   
      
   Also note that Tolkien showed the longevity of the Dunedain   
   and the Stewards after them in an uneven but inexorable decline   
   from the dawn of Numenore to the Fourth Age onward.   
   Yet here we are with records being broken.   
      
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   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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