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Numenorean · 04-16-2003, 09:56 AM

Reading Unfinished Tales the other night I came across the following passage written about the time of Isildurs death:
P.276
"Each of the Dúnedain carried in a sealed wallet on his belt a small phial of cordial and wafers of a waybread that would sustain life in him for many days - not indeed the Miruvor or the Lembas of the Eldar, but like them, for the medicine and other arts of Númenor were potent and not yet forgotten"

I haven't read any of the HoME books yet and was wondering if there is any evidence (anywhere) to suggest that these 'arts of Númenor' survived in any way to the time of Aragorns Dúnedain?

04-16-2003, 09:56 AM	#1
Numenorean Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Bay of Eldanna Posts: 94	Dúnedain Survival Rations Reading Unfinished Tales the other night I came across the following passage written about the time of Isildurs death: P.276 "Each of the Dúnedain carried in a sealed wallet on his belt a small phial of cordial and wafers of a waybread that would sustain life in him for many days - not indeed the Miruvor or the Lembas of the Eldar, but like them, for the medicine and other arts of Númenor were potent and not yet forgotten" I haven't read any of the HoME books yet and was wondering if there is any evidence (anywhere) to suggest that these 'arts of Númenor' survived in any way to the time of Aragorns Dúnedain? __________________ '…Avallónë, the haven of the Eldar upon Eressëa, easternmost of the Undying Lands, and thence at times the Firstborn still would come sailing to Númenor in oarless boats, as white birds flying from the sunset…'