OK, so if the Men of Gondor believed that there was some kind of relationship between Numenorians and the Rohirrim, then what about the Kin-Strife?
For wasn't that whole civil war based on the fact that King Eldacar had Rhovanion blood through his mother, whom the Gondorians regarded as "lesser men"? And the Rhovanion were the ancestors of the Men of Rohan, right?
Unless...Merry mentioned that he believed there had also been some kind of connection between Halflings and the Rhovanion in the past, due to similarities in language. Do you suppose the Numenorians looked down on the Rhovanion because they suspected (Birdie looks right and left and lowers her voice) "there was a hobbit in the woodpile"?
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