Ingen aning ...
Filmer
I filmerna nämner Beorn att han var från bergen, och han är medveten av mörkret i Mirkwood. Självklart vid den tiden visste ingen vem Necromancer var, så han kunde inte veta att det var Sauron.
[Thorin:] “You know of Azog? How?”
[Beorn:] “My people were the first to live in the mountains, before the Orcs came down from the north. The Defiler killed most of my family, but some he enslaved.”
[Bilbo sees the remnants of manacles on Beorn’s wrist.]
[Beorn:] “Not for work, you understand, but for sport. Caging skin-changers and torturing them seemed to amuse him.”
[Bilbo:] “There are others like you?”
[Beorn:] “Once, there were many.”
[Bilbo:] “And now?”
[Beorn:] “Now, there is only one.”
[The dwarves, Bilbo, and Gandalf look on in silence.]
[Beorn:] “You need to reach the mountain before the last days of autumn?"
[Gandalf:] “Before Durin’s Day falls, yes.”
[Beorn:] “You are running out of time.”
[Gandalf:] “Which is why we must go through Mirkwood.”
[Beorn:] “A darkness lies upon that forest. Fell things creep beneath those trees. There is an alliance between the Orcs of Moria and the Necromancer in Dol Guldur. I would not venture there except in great need.”
böcker
Det nämns inte heller i böckerna.
... men förmodligen lika långlivade som vanliga, dödliga män
I Bilaga F :
Most of the Men of the northern regions if the West-lands were descended from the Edain of the First Age, or from their close kin. Their languages were, therefore, related to the Adunaic, and some still preserved a likeness to the Common Speech. Of this kind were the people of the upper vales of the Anduin: the Beornings, [...].
Således har inga relationer de Numenoreans de inte har sina längre livslängder, och skulle därför ha levt så länge som Män normalt skulle (förmodligen 80-100 år gammal).