Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26429944-20180208085334/@comment-26298013-20180213050145

No, Elrond is the High King of the Noldor after Gil-galad's death (Beleriand never really had a single King as it was pretty big and full of different peoples, and now it doesn't need one, seeing as how, you know, it's a bit damp/swallowed by the sea in a gigantic cataclysm), but he's also the most direct in line for all Numenorean-based titles and thrones.

I repeat: Aragorn is NOT a truly direct descendant of Elros. The direct line of father/mother to ELDEST son/daughter died out, and a cousin or some such took the throne, twice, I think. (So he's still a descendant, but has a weaker claim than Elrond has...or that Elrond COULD have, if he cared about it.)