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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 2771042" data-attributes="member: 27051">Heh, thanks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  As I recall, I came up with the idea first and did exactly that - found a way to shoehorn Dunedain-types into the setting so that I could use it.They are referenced here and there in the films (Elrond goes on about them in Rivendell in FotR and get more exposure in the extended versions.  Eowyn realises that Aragorn is a Dunadan in her "exactly what is wrong with my soup?" scene in the extended Two Towers.I agree - outside of fantasy literature, it does have an uncomfortable ubermensch feel to it.Plus they're not even really English!  There is an old myth from Glastonbury about a tree called the Glastonbury Thorn (supposedly planted by Joseph of Aramithea).  In years gone by it allegedly used to burst into flower in the presence of English royalty but, as our somewhat haphazard royal lineage sputtered and died out over the centuries, it ceased to do so.  Not that I imagine that the House of Windsor gets down to Wyrall Hill much, but there you go <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />...</blockquote>

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