June 24, 2003

Re: Aragorn's Age
Andrew

Aragorn is in fact in his eighties in the book. I don't think it ever mentions it in the reading of the book, but if u look in the appendices, and at the timeline, which is appendix B, u can see that Aragorn was born in 2931, and the events of Lord of the Ring take place in 3018 and 3019. The reason Aragorn can live to 86 and still look like he's in his thirties is because of the Numenorean blood in him. The Numenoreans could live long lives because of the Elvish blood in them. I don't know the whole story behind it, but that's the basic explanation.