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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: The oldest people of ME?
I find that very hard to believe Durelen, so it must be something else than just common sense. I do not think that the Elven bodies were placed at the Water of Awakening since the earliest beginnings of Ea, in fact it seems most unlikely. The Elves would be lying there and awake only 5 (at the very least three)Ages or so later. Taking into consideration that an age last roughly 3,000 years, then that does present some problems lol ( the Elves would have been there for over 10,000 years before they awoke!!. The bodies would have rotten I believe.
As for Cirdan, as you say, it is more probable that he was younger than Elwe. I did not present it as a fact, but as a line of reasoning <img src=smile.gif ALT="
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"In those days the Noldor still roamed the Hither Lands, Mightiest among the Children of Iluvatar, fair and tall and their beautiful voices were still heard by mere mortals"</p>