The dark powers clearly did not wish this video to be released 😬

So glad you made another long video. The Rohan video had so many little details come up that I don't think would have had a place in the more focused lore videos. I hope we get more of these soon, or at least sooner than next year 😅 doesn't even matter what topic, just whatever you feel has enough to talk about

@DarthGandalfYT yet you overcame this adversity for the greater glory of Arnor.

Thank you so much for this video, Kind Regards.

the witch king of angmar's ghost is corrupting your files

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Fingon ruled the shortest for just 17 years so…..

@@talesoftheeldar8688 17 years is nothing to an elf.

Would be cool to have a follow-up video that covers the lore of Arnor from Merp

@@thomasalvarez6456 ok but a lot of things happend during fingons rule

What's DAC?

@@johnlogan3096 Looks like my first reply got deleted as I had included a link to the official DAC ModDB page lol. Anyways, Divide and Conquer “DAC” is a major SubMoD for Third Age Total War “TaTW”. TaTW in turn is a Lord of the Rings inspired total conversion Mod for the classic Creative Assembly medieval strategy game Medieval 2 Total War. Basically, DAC is a RTS set in Middle Earth during the Third Age.

@@johnphillips4708 Still have V3 where you can play as Rivendell and only have one settlement. It makes it fun to come up with new strategies

That could also be why the Witch-King was sent to destroy them, if they were allowed to flourish they would be a greater threat to evil than Gondor was, especially when allied with the elves.

Those same hillman also seemed to integrate into armor boosting the population. Don't forget dwarves in Moriar and the blue mountains. In addition, access to the sea.

I think the disaster of the Gladden fields sealed the fate of Arnor. Arnor took heavy casualties in the last alliance. The death of two mighty and majestic high kings (in potential for one) and the 200 knights and lords was a blow that it couldn't recover from. If Isildur or even Elendur survived, the kingdom would be attractive even to the southern Dunedain, and it could slowly recover.

Arnor's geography reminds me of Russia's geography, both were large open areas with large rivers and smaller ones, but minhiriath had a big ass gap to the northeast from which Angmar came and ravaged the land

​@@saeedshahbazian9889 Arnor did fine for 700 year after the war of the last alliance, and even after being split up they did fine until Angmar and the plague screwed them. Their line of Kings is also the one that didn't fail, unlike in Gondor.

Yeah, if I remember right, the Canon from BFME2 RotWK is accurate in the fact that at the time of the later stages of the Angmar wars, Fornost became the capital because of the centuries of war, and the Great Plague from Rhovanion and Angmar simultaneously. There just weren't enough Dúnedain left in Annúminas to actually populate it fully. But when Aragorn returned and reforged Arnor with Gondor in the 4th Age, he made Annúminas the capital of the Reunited Kingdom as it was under Elendil.

I believe Annuminas was the best spot in the beginning and the best city of the two, because it was better suited for an defense(an attacker would have to take Fornost and later cross the Baranduin to get there), and the lake Nenuial would provide fish and fertile lands in the valleys of the hills of evendim, so the population could grow quicker. Also, I believe most of the dunedain lived west of the Baranduin of the time, they were a minority in Arnor but were still in the hundreds of thousands I think, so Annuminas was closer to them than Fornost, and though Fornost was the last city in the Royal Road from the south, it became more important because of the devastating war of the last alliance, in which so many of the dunedain and the Middle Men died, it could imply a great hit on the people west of the baranduin, which would render Annuminas less important

I never saw it that way, interesting. I agree there was history and spiritual significance in Anuminas as the middle men had been there for so long. I thought Fornost was smaller so it was easier to fill with people and it was closer to the enemy and thus became the capital.

someone had to say it didn't they, you bastard!

I would love to see one that also features the rebuilding.

Agreed. I would like to see how they managed to habe a three way civil war that resulted in a stalemate with nobody winning.

He was the leader of the Faithful and most of the Númenoreans living in that area were also of the Faithful so I imagine it went over quite well.

Judging the the disloyalty of the Hillmen, not very.

​@@waltonsmith7210 according to the Unfinished Tales, the men of "eastern arnor" went to the war of the last alliance led by Isildur, those men were probably the Hillmen

The Numenorians were to normal humans like the Noldor were to the dark elves. Sophisticated, powerfull and more wise. They also had good connections with the elves and Gil Galad. I guess it was the same reason why Thingol was accepted as King of Beleriand. It was just better to have him a leader.

"Well I didn't vote for you!"

If Aragorn was slain I believe Faramir would have the best claim since he was a descendant of Anárion

To be fair, i think it says in Unfinished Tales or the Silmarillion that even Arnor was just a shadow of Númenor. Much of the culture wasn't saved because Erú quite literally wiped the island out I'm less than 30 minutes. I feel like what we get is actually pretty good considering had Elrond stayed longer we might have gotten more information or if Tolkien had gone more in depth on the topic. Because Cirdan didn't take the last ship with presumably Celeborn and Thranduil until years after Sam left across the Belegaer. Sam left after Rosie passed and passed the Red Book to his children but I think Merry, Pippin, and Aragorn were all still alive and flourishing as messengers for Rohan and Gondor and as king respectively. Gimli and Legolas had yet to sail down the Anduin and to Valinor also. Aragorn would have likely remembered much of what Elrond told him and of his own studies when being fostered in Rivendell. Not to mention Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen who had much longer to study history from their father who fought in the wars. Perhaps the new age and fading of evil and magic was just naturally changing Gondor's culture and the Fellowship and Arwen were some of the last of a bygone age.

This would have been a far more difficult journey at a time when people did not move around as much as they do in our time.

@@istari0 True enough, some intrepid Gondorian merchants would need to be involved, since I doubt Lindon sailors would help it along.

If I have to keep getting up from what I am doing to skip all the ads, the long form format becomes worthless to me. I wont be watching any of your longer videos for this reason.

Gondor is Eastern Rome/Byzantine. Isn’t Mordor supposed to represent Turkey/Ottoman Empire?