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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
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 they 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.
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That might be the source.
But it has its own issues, of course. Most of the Dunedain were
not descended from Elves, after all. The royal family (and eventually through them some of the nobility and probably a few commoners) had Elvish and Ainurin blood, but most of the commoners were of pure Mannish descent.