<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">
Newly Deceased
Posts: 10</TD><TD><img src=http://home.att.net/~robertwgardner/caractacus.jpg WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE>
<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: the races and 'magic'
Gilthalion here.
I don't think that there was very much "natural" or "good" magic built into Men, if we are defining that as some enduement of power and purpose into the fabrication of articles.
The Numenorians of the royal line of Elros, and their collateral relations by blood, would have eventually formed a small but significant portion of the island populatation. (Please don't make me do the math!)
One might expect the descendants of Elros among men to thus not only have longer lives, but other Elvish qualities as well. Such longer-lived, more "talented" men could be expected to take dominant positions in the Numenorean economy, and be able to bring the natural results of the crafts and practices they developed with them to Middle-earth for the construction of Isengard, swords, etc.
If we consider that the Elves for a time visited Numenor, then it becomes the more likely that such among them as could learn, by "right" of blood (like Aragorn's right to appropriate the Palantir), were taught.
<hr> <center><font size=1>Not much at all to see at
http://www.geocities.com/robertwgardner2000My Bare Bones Website</a></center></p>