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Numenor Colonies
According to UT Lond Daer at the mouth tof the Greyflood river was also a port and colony of Numenor. Apparently not all the Numenoreans of Umbar became Black Numenoreans. There is about 100 years between the Fall of Numenor and the Last Alliance so there was time for a few generations to grow but most of the Army of Arnor and Gondor must have been made up of indigenous men who submitted to Numenorean rule.
There still needs to be some explanation of how the major cities of Minas Anor, Ossigliath, Minas Ithil, and Annuminas were made in addition to the great works at Aglarond and Orthanc. These hint at, even demand, that we believe there was a significant Numenorean population that could not be accomodated at Pelargir and Lond Daer. Though Tolkien hints at some mysterious method of contructing Orthanc and the outer wall of Minas Anor (AKA Minas Tirith) most of the contruction was 'normal' requiring much labor and manpower.
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