Tolkien Gateway  Waning of Dúnedain  (Redirected from Waning of
the dunedain)  The waning of the Dúnedain refers to the
physical, mental, and spiritual changes experienced by the
exiled Men of Númenor after the Downfall of their land at the
end of the Second Age. Before the isle of Númenor was destroyed,
its people were taller, wiser, and much more long-lived than
other Men. After their exile, the Dúnedain who lived in Middle-
earth were gradually deprived of these gifts, so that by the
time of the War of the Ring, 3,000 years after the Downfall,
most of them were on the same level as the Men of Middle-earth.
In houses that maintained purity of Númenórean blood (such as
that of Aragorn Elessar), these changes were somewhat slowed;
Aragorn lived 210 years, far longer than any other Man of that
time period.  Broadly speaking, the waning of the Dúnedain could
be linked to the decline and ultimate failure of the line of
Kings in the exilic realm of Gondor, and the dwindling of the
royal house in its sister kingdom