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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
"... wasn't Aragorn's "half-elven" strain attributable to him being a descendant of the line of Elros? In which case attributing his healing skills to that strain is akin to attributing it [to] his Numenorean descent. Also, it is by his healing skills that Aragorn is recognised in Minas Tirith as Isildur's heir, suggesting that it was part of his Numenorean ancestry."
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Exactly. I missed this reply 21 years ago. The 'Numenorean Arts' all have origins in the 1st Age and were passed on to the Edain who would populate Numenor, and by the unique fact that Elros was half-Elven and chose to live a mortal life of a man.