Tumblr crosspost (27 September 2019)
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anghrainemoggett at Tumblr said:
Does Eomer have Morwen’s height? Didn’t the appendix say he took after his Rohan side (as opposed to Eowyn’s “grace and height”).
I replied:
In a later note in UT, Tolkien says:
The Rohirrim were generally shorter, for in their far-off ancestry they had been mingled with men of broader and heavier build. Éomer was said to have been tall, of like height with Aragorn; but he with other descendants of King Thengel were taller than the norm of Rohan, deriving this characteristic (together in some cases with darker hair) from Morwen, Thengel’s wife, a lady of Gondor of high Númenórean descent.
Does Eomer have Morwen’s height? Didn’t the appendix say he took after his Rohan side (as opposed to Eowyn’s “grace and height”).
I replied:
In a later note in UT, Tolkien says:
The Rohirrim were generally shorter, for in their far-off ancestry they had been mingled with men of broader and heavier build. Éomer was said to have been tall, of like height with Aragorn; but he with other descendants of King Thengel were taller than the norm of Rohan, deriving this characteristic (together in some cases with darker hair) from Morwen, Thengel’s wife, a lady of Gondor of high Númenórean descent.