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- From: schere@aix.rpi.edu (Mithrandir)
- Subject: Re: POPULATION OF GONDOR
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:28:37 GMT
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- In article <HIGHLNDR.93Jan21142725@csa.bu.edu> highlndr@csa.bu.edu (Sean Pfeiffer) writes:
- >If I remember correctly, there were already Numenorian colonies located
- >at Pelargir and Isengard (although Orthanc wasn't built yet) that were
- >built long before around the middle of the Second Age (when the numenorians
- >landed to help drive Sauron from Eriador)
- >
- >Sean
-
- Besides, no doubt the ships were not small. Remember, we are talking
- Numenor at it's height of power.
- Mithrandir
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- Many are my names in many countries. Mithrandir among the Elves, Tharkun to
- the Dwarves; Olorin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the
- South Incanus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not.
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