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Otaku-sempai
Posted: May 2 2012, 04:55 PM
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When we get the TOR suppliment for Rivendell, I hope that it identifies one or more northern settlements of the surviving Dúnedain. TheOneRing.net board member Felagund addressed this recently:
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I remember talk online a few years back about some of Tolkien's papers, kept in the Marquette University Archives, having a reference to the Dúnedain and their dwelling place in Eriador after the fall of Arthedain. I haven't seen the text reproduced, so can't confirm either way, but it's supposed to refer to a Dúnedain settlement in The Angle, between the Mitheithel (Hoarwell) and Bruinen (Loudwater) Rivers, south of Rivendell.

This would accord with the 'east and south of Bree' theory, put the Dúnedain remnant near the relative safety of Rivendell and far enough away from dangerous palces like the Trollshaws and the Ettenmoors.

I can imagine that there were other settlements both north of Rivendell (between the Trollshaws and the Misty Moutains) and south of the Ford of Bruinen.

The North Downs and Fornost Erain (Deadman's Dike) seem to have been abandoned by all Men including the Dúnedain, although Gandalf tells Barliman Butterbur that Rangers still patrol the area.


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Brooke
Posted: May 3 2012, 05:53 AM
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Oh, I so want that supplement smile.gif
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Tolwen
Posted: May 3 2012, 07:22 AM
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Hi Otaku-sempai,
the very theme of your question has been addressed in much detail in the last Issue of Other Minds Magazine. You may download it (#13) here (as well as back Issues of Other Minds and Other Hands). You may find useful information and original material there.

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Otaku-sempai
Posted: May 3 2012, 09:04 AM
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QUOTE (Tolwen @ May 3 2012, 11:22 AM)
Hi Otaku-sempai,
the very theme of your question has been addressed in much detail in the last Issue of Other Minds Magazine. You may download it (#13) here (as well as back Issues of Other Minds and Other Hands). You may find useful information and original material there.

Cheers
Tolwen

Thanx! That is indeed an extensive article that goes far beyond my simple question. There do seem to be very few communities of Rangers in the later Third Age, although the article places at least one of them a bit further North than I had actually imagined.


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