Timeline for What exactly happened politically to the Kingdom of Arthedain after King Arvedui's death?
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| Oct 18, 2023 at 22:00 | answer | added | Ian Thompson | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 18, 2023 at 21:07 | comment | added | Ian Thompson | In the absence of a king or lord, the remaining people of Arthedain formed an anarcho-syndicalist commune. | |
| Oct 18, 2023 at 18:26 | comment | added | Mithoron | I imagine Aragorn had to recolonise the land. | |
| Oct 18, 2023 at 18:22 | comment | added | Mithoron | There was no political organisation besides Shire, Bree and Dunedain. There are some mentions about other populations in Eriador, but there is no indication they had some kind of stateship. | |
| Oct 18, 2023 at 18:18 | comment | added | Mark Olson | @Hannes We can speculate, but JRRT never said anything beyond that they were part of the Reunited Kingdom. I think your question is unanswerable within canon. | |
| Oct 18, 2023 at 17:55 | comment | added | Hannes | @MarkOlson So again, the question is how the territories north of the Shire and Breeland were politically organized following the victory over Angmar. | |
| Oct 18, 2023 at 17:26 | comment | added | Mark Olson | @Hannes:Three points, first, it's much easier reestablishing a kingdom if there is no existing polity to demur. Second, there were bits of settled land. We only hear about the Shire and the Breeland, but since they existed, there were probably at least a few others and they would welcome anything that cut down on the surrounding anarchy. Third, the crushing of the northern orcs during The Hobbit and of the southern bad guys fifty years later meant that the land which was once Arnor was now a fine place for settlement. | |
| Oct 18, 2023 at 17:06 | history | edited | Dosco Jones | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 18, 2023 at 16:58 | comment | added | Hannes | @Valorum So that leads to the other mentioned question how King Elessar could have restored the Northern Kingdom. I don't get the impression that there are as many Dúnedain in the North as in Minas Tirith alone. And since rangers are fighters, I wonder how everyone out of all the common people could have become a ranger. Almost every ranger seems to be male, I know of only one female ranger. | |
| Oct 18, 2023 at 16:35 | comment | added | Valorum | "Although the realm of Angmar was crushed at the Battle of Fornost in 1975,[3] the realm of Arthedain also came to an end and its lands remained mostly empty (except for the Shire) and its people became Rangers; until the reestablishment of the northern kingdom under king Elessar at the end of the Third Age" - tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Arthedain | |
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| S Oct 18, 2023 at 16:27 | history | asked | Hannes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |