Talk:Elendil

Elendil was much taller than 6'6''. According to Unfinished Tales, a ranga (plural: rangar) was a Numenorean unit of length. It was 38 of our inches long. Two rangar was also known as "man-high," and was the average Numenorean height. That comes out to 76", or 6' 4". Now, Tolkien listed Elendil as being "more than man-high by almost half a ranga." This means that he was nearly 2.5 rangar tall, which comes out to nearly 8 ft tall (approximately 7' 11", which Elendil almost reached).  So, I would say that no shorter than 7' 9" or 7' 10" is appropriate.  Certainly not 6' 6". Rgleon9986 (talk) 04:35, September 10, 2013 (UTC)