Thread: Heighty is mighty?
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Old 06-27-2006, 10:45 AM   #30
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While reading LotR it caught my eye that the Men of Dol Amroth were described "tall as lords". The heighty-mighty -phenomenon again.

Is there any historical evidence (from real world), that lords would have been taller than the non-lords? Or is everything just made up by the historians?
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