[Sillabub]

First of all, let's make it clear that Numenor no longer exists. Numenor (also known as Atlante) was once home to a race of proud, strong men. However, these men became greedy and corrupt, wanting gold and jewels and the ability to go to the gray havens. This grew to the point that pirates of a kind began to roam the shores of middle-earth, capturing and looting other ships. It was on a raiding expedition that Sauron was captured and the foolish king of Numenor decided to take him back as a prisoner, to show off his strenght etc etc etc. Unfortunately, sauron eventually corrupted the king and a shadow began to fall over numenor. The king at some point around then decided that numenoreans should be able to pass on to the gray havens, and sailed off to the gray havens. Sadly, when he put just one foot down onto the soil of the gray havens, Numenor was swallowed by the ocean and sank. Elendil was able to safely sail away with 7 seeing stones (palantiri I presume) and a bunch of other numenoreans. Upon landing at middle earth they created the realms in exile: Arnor, Gondor and (i think) Eriador. Their story is another issue.

Due to the fact that numenor has not existed for at least an age, one would assume that Aragorn is not in fact a Numenorean, but a descendant of the Numenoreans in exile. Plus, if he really was a numenorean how could he be an heir to the throne of Gondor? And how could he live in Numenor if he wasn't a fish?

And anyhow, on the topic of aragorn and Gondor, I have some info. to point out:
-Aragorn is Arwen's cousin
-He is a descendant of Elrond's brother Elros
-Minas ithil, which was once part of gondor, was taken by mordor and renamed Minas Morgul
-It is extremely unlikely that a human heir to the gondorian throne in any manner whatsoever is not related to elrond and arwen and foremost Aragorn
-Aragorn is around 41 when the fellowship sets out
-Rohan was once part of Gondor....
Alright, I'll stop now. If I get started on Gondor It'll be really hard to get me to stop! So there you have it. A VERY ROUGH history of the destruction of Numenor and some info about Aragorn. And no I am NOT obsessed with Aragorn, I've been doing ALOT of studying about Gondor and they mention Aragorn alot in any of the really useful stuff I found. I am also NOT obsessed with Merry and I swear I was NOT staring at him! I was staring at someone else...heh heh nevermind.