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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
I don't have a cite for it off-hand, but I do seem to recall from somewhere that many of the Dunedain lacked beards.
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There's an indirect mention in Unfinished Tales that one of the very last things Tolkien had written about Middle-Earth (never published) was that the Dunedain did not have beards, because of their descent from Elves. But then, Cirdan had a beard, just to be contradictory to other implications that Elves are beardless.
Tolkien was mostly nonspecific on the question, I think. Other than dwaves, he rarely mentions beards -- but that doesn't necessarily mean they were absent. Some people take the phrase "fair of face" to mean "beardless", rather than merely "attractive".