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Man-of-the-Wold · 01-27-2003, 01:51 AM

So, they hung out in the Angle! Well south of the road, no doubt, and not to be confused with the stonework of the evil Hill-men on the road's north sides. This would also be the area of the Hobbits' Forgotten Villages.

We are told that they wandered about Fornost, where there wouldn't have been hardly anyone to protect. So, perhaps, some resided there at times, too. I'd also assumed that around Lake Evendim they would have maintained family dwellings, too, in a not-so settled way, perhaps.

But the Enemy seems never to have ascertained their existence, and one reason may be that they never had much permanence anywhere, even for domestic life, that lasted in the same place for more than a generation or so.

They certainly numbered in the hundreds, at least, counting children, women and older men, altogether. And, seemingly did not intermarry with non-Dunedain, and it seems that the Norther Dunedain never had really intermarried with others, except perhaps, at much earlier times when they may have assimilated Adunaic groups still left in Eriador.

The impression is of the Grey Company being only a portion -- at least a little less than half -- of the those fit for duty.

And, I assume there were other scattered, minor settlements of Eriadorians about that they tried to protect, besides the Breelanders and the Shire, who were the only really significant populations left.

Of course they couldn't do it all, as witnessed by the Orc-raids of the fabled Golfimbul and the wolves during the Fell Winter.

To have them in the Angle, near Rivendell makes sense, although it seemed that when Gilraen left Rivendell, she went to a much more distant location, hence my assumptions about Evendim.

But after Frodo's escape and the onset of the War of the Rings, I would imagine that the Rangers, who did not go with Grey Company, would most likely have been active in eastern Eriador. I'd always pictured them and the Elves of Rivendell not being idle, but coordinating with the Beornings and others across the Misty Mountains, by countering threats and so forth that would have been arising from the Northern Mountains, Ettenmoors and so forth. As the deaths of Aragorn's grandfather and father suggest, that is where they often directed their more strategic, armed attention.

This would also explain, why the Shire was left relatively unguarded, and was then so readily infiltrated by Sharkey's Men in 3019.

[ January 28, 2003: Message edited by: Man-of-the-Wold ]

01-27-2003, 01:51 AM	#20
Man-of-the-Wold Wight Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: With Tux, dread poodle of Pinnath Galin Posts: 239	So, they hung out in the Angle! Well south of the road, no doubt, and not to be confused with the stonework of the evil Hill-men on the road's north sides. This would also be the area of the Hobbits' Forgotten Villages. We are told that they wandered about Fornost, where there wouldn't have been hardly anyone to protect. So, perhaps, some resided there at times, too. I'd also assumed that around Lake Evendim they would have maintained family dwellings, too, in a not-so settled way, perhaps. But the Enemy seems never to have ascertained their existence, and one reason may be that they never had much permanence anywhere, even for domestic life, that lasted in the same place for more than a generation or so. They certainly numbered in the hundreds, at least, counting children, women and older men, altogether. And, seemingly did not intermarry with non-Dunedain, and it seems that the Norther Dunedain never had really intermarried with others, except perhaps, at much earlier times when they may have assimilated Adunaic groups still left in Eriador. The impression is of the Grey Company being only a portion -- at least a little less than half -- of the those fit for duty. And, I assume there were other scattered, minor settlements of Eriadorians about that they tried to protect, besides the Breelanders and the Shire, who were the only really significant populations left. Of course they couldn't do it all, as witnessed by the Orc-raids of the fabled Golfimbul and the wolves during the Fell Winter. To have them in the Angle, near Rivendell makes sense, although it seemed that when Gilraen left Rivendell, she went to a much more distant location, hence my assumptions about Evendim. But after Frodo's escape and the onset of the War of the Rings, I would imagine that the Rangers, who did not go with Grey Company, would most likely have been active in eastern Eriador. I'd always pictured them and the Elves of Rivendell not being idle, but coordinating with the Beornings and others across the Misty Mountains, by countering threats and so forth that would have been arising from the Northern Mountains, Ettenmoors and so forth. As the deaths of Aragorn's grandfather and father suggest, that is where they often directed their more strategic, armed attention. This would also explain, why the Shire was left relatively unguarded, and was then so readily infiltrated by Sharkey's Men in 3019. [ January 28, 2003: Message edited by: Man-of-the-Wold ] __________________ The hoes unrecked in the fields were flung, __ and fallen ladders in the long grass lay __ of the lush orchards; every tree there turned __ its tangled head and eyed them secretly, __ and the ears listened of the nodding grasses; __ though noontide glowed on land and leaf, __ their limbs were chilled.