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- From: peters@physics.ubc.ca (Dan Peters)
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- Subject: Re: POPULATION OF GONDOR
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 09:21:15 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- >Besides, no doubt the ships were not small. Remember, we are talking
- >Numenor at it's height of power.
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- Even so, it's hard to believe there would be more than about 1000 passengers on
- each (probably much less), and the Kingdoms in Exile seem to have _at least_
- a few hundred thousand people, considering all the "cities" mentioned. So
- whether they are big ships or small seems to be pretty irrelevant....
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- Drin
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