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   From: le@top.put.com   
      
   Some time between the first two iterations of Douglas Anderson's   
   Note on the Text,the age attributed to Aragorn in Appendix A at   
   the end of the narrative about Arnor,before "Gondor and the   
   heirs of Anarion" (this is page 1044 in the one-volume Fiftieth   
   Anniversary text) was changed from one hundred and ninety years   
   to two hundred and ten years.(This reflects his dying in 120 F.A.   
   as had already been stated in previous editions,after 90 years   
   in the Third Age,rather than 100 F.A. as had apparently been   
   assumed in some texts).   
      
   In both cases this is described as "longer than any of his line   
   since King Arvegil".   
      
   In the closing volume of History of Middle-Earth is an article   
   "The Heirs of Elendil" with birth and death years and ages in   
   years for the Kings descended from Elendil and for the Ruling   
   Stewards of Gondor.Arvegil is explicitly there stated to have   
   died at the age of 190 and his father and grandfather at ages   
   in their 190s.   
      
   If Aragorn in fact lived to be 210,either 1)Arvegil must have   
   lived to at least 210 and been born earlier than stated in   
   HoME by 20 years or a few more,or 2)Aragorn was actually the   
   longest lived of his line since either King Celebrindor(who   
   died at 210) or his father Celepharn(who was some years older   
   than that),depending on the exact ages of Aragorn & Celebrindor.   
      
   Which correction should be assumed correct?   
      
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