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  2. Númenor - Wikipedia

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    He was brought back to Númenor as a prisoner, but soon seduced the king and many other Númenóreans, promising them eternal life if they worshipped his master Melkor. With Sauron as his advisor, Ar-Pharazôn had a 500-foot (150 m) tall temple erected in Armenelos. In this temple human sacrifices were offered to Melkor. The White Tree Nimloth ...

  3. Dúnedain - Wikipedia

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    The Rangers were grim in life, appearance, and dress, choosing to wear rustic green and brown. The Rangers of the Grey Company were dressed in dark grey cloaks and openly wore a silver brooch shaped like a pointed star during the War of the Ring. They rode rough-haired, sturdy horses, were helmeted and carried shields.

  4. Tuor and Idril - Wikipedia

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    Tuor Eladar and Idril Celebrindal are fictional characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.They are the parents of Eärendil the Mariner and grandparents of Elrond Half-elven: through their progeny, they become the ancestors of the Númenóreans and of the King of the Reunited Kingdom Aragorn Elessar.

  5. Gondor - Wikipedia

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    Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age.The third volume of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, is largely concerned with the events in Gondor during the War of the Ring and with the restoration of the realm afterward.

  6. I Thought You'd Be Taller: Celebs Who Are Shorter Than You ...

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    But in real life Bogart's height was only 5 feet 8 inches — and actually an inch shorter than his "Casablanca" lover, Ingrid Bergman, and his movie star and model wife, Lauren Bacall. Karwai ...

  7. Adar (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) - Wikipedia

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    It includes a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall sculpture of Uinen. Avery gave this as an example of the level of detail in the designs that were inspired by Tolkien's writings rather than the series' scripts. [43] The Hall of Lore that is visited in this episode used the same set as the dungeon, due to budget and space constraints.

  8. Women in prehistory - Wikipedia

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    From the 1970s onward, the dominant scientific perspective of gendered roles in hunter-gatherer societies was of a model termed "Man the Hunter, Woman the Gatherer".Coined by anthropologists Richard Borshay Lee and Irven DeVore in 1968, it argued, based on evidence now thought to be incomplete, that contemporary foragers displayed a clear division of labor between women and men. [1]

  9. List of people with dwarfism - Wikipedia

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    Dutch woman, recognized by the Guinness World Records as the shortest woman ever recorded 1876–1895 England: 114 cm (45 in) [119] Anne Clowes Reported centenarian dwarf (second longest lived next to Susanna Bokoyni) with house designed for her stature. [119] [120] [121] 1681–1784 United States: 135.0 cm (53.1 in) Paul Steven Miller