House of Elros

The House of Elros was the line of descendans,begun by Elros.Due to his ancestry,he was a Half-elven and given the choice of the life of the Eldar or the Gift of Men.He chose to live as a mortal,but he had an extraordinary lifespan of 500 years.His descents inherited his longivity,but Elros was the only one who lived so long.

Elros,also known as Tar-Minyatur was the first King of Numenor.After his time the islland was ruled by Kings and Queens of his House for about 3000 years of the Second Age.Elros' distand descendant Ar-Pharazôn  was manipulated by Sauron into bringing about the Downfall of Numenor and then the end of the Line of the Kings.

There were no more kings for Numenor,but the House of Elros did not end in the Downfall. The Kings had been descended through Elros' great-great-grandson  Meneldur, but another branch of the House also survived: the  Lords of Andúnië, descended from  Meneldur's elder sister  Silmariën.The line of the Lords of  Andúnië continued until Elendil and his sons Isildur and Anarion and so was carried from Numenor to Middle-Earth and surviving the Kings of Arnor and of Gondor.After the War of the Ring and 6000 years after its founder,a heir of the House of Elros was still alive.He could be no other than Aragorn II Elessar.


* Vardamir Nólimo