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Finally on the repopulation of Arnor. I would think, as I have said, that while a smallish number of people from Dunland would have helped settle the land, most of the settlers would have to come from Rohan and Gondor. Primarily Gondor. It is a Numenorean kingdom after all, so Gondor would have to supply most of the inhabitants. The Rangers can be included in this i guess.
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Interesting discussion here. It seems that it's assumed, except for Gwaihir the Windlord's last post, that only people of Numenorean descent would re-populate Arnor. Gondor, already having their blood mingled with others, namely the Northmen, there could very well be many more mixed blood marriages, especially in the south. The blood-mingling is highlighted in the marriage of Faramir and Éowyn, and also in the marriage of Aragorn and Arwen. But I
theorize that in the years after the war, that trade and mingling with the populations of Harad, Khand, and the Easterlings would increase, and surely the Dunlandings would migrate and mingle as well. The fourth Age was the age of men, and they had the ability to increase their population quickly. For some reason I have a hard time believing the Northern Dúnedain's practice of blood purity would endure, and would be seen as a sort of racism in an enlightened society of men brought on by King Elessar.