The Númenóreans were tall. Adult males were normally around
6′4″ or so (2 rangar in Númenórean linear measure), but some individuals were
taller. Elendil the Tall was supposedly 2–1/2 rangar, or 7′11″ tall. Númenor
was a prosperous realm with advanced health care, so I assume that most
Númenóreans were well grown and healthy.
The Númenóreans were descended from the three houses of the
Edain. While people of Númenórean descent in LotR are described as dark haired
with grey eyes and pale skin, the population of Númenor itself included
blue-eyed blonds as well, descendants of the House of Hador (e.g., Tar-Aldarion
was blond). The populace also included descendants of the House of Haleth, so
there may have been some people with browner skin and eye coloring. The
original population of Númenor also included some Drúedain, called Woses in the
Third Age. (Ghân-buri-Ghân in LotR was one of the Woses.) The Drúedain living
in Númenor started to emigrate from the island around the reign of Tar-Aldarion
and were all gone by the time of the Downfall.
The people of Númenor were long lived. At the beginning of
the Second Age the lifespan of an ordinary Númenórean seems to have been around
210-240 years; they enjoyed a period of vigor three times that of the Men of
Middle-earth. Erendis wife of Tar-Aldarion had felt the approach of old age
before her death by drowning at age 214. Members of the royal house lived to
around 400, more or less, at least to the reign of Tar-Telemmaitë (2136–2526),
who died at age 390. After his reign the distinctions between royalty and
ordinary people, in lifespan as well as other attributes, began to grow less.
Tar-Ardamin (SA 2816–2899) was the first ruler to die before age 300.
Tar-Palantir, the last Númenórean ruler to die of natural causes, lived to age
220.
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