decent of house of hurin

[cellurdur]

Originally Posted by laurens

I know faramir mentions his line is not descended from elendil, somewhere else it says that the house of hurin is ultimately of royal descent, so I take this to mean ther royal descent is to be loated in elros's line, before elendil, so a royal side-branch of the numenorean kings. haven t fund out which one(s) this could be. however, faramir stating all this, doesn t make it true of course. might just as well be a family myth.

This was from an earlier draft, which was removed from the published copy. With the declaration that any King/Queen of Numenor had to marry another descendant of Elros, the vast majority of Numenorean Lords dying in the Akallabeth, the low birthrate, the kin slaying, the wars with Sauron etc; I don't think there were many descendants of Elros let alone Elendil left.

I think also they were allowed to rule, precisely because they had no claim to the throne.