It had been deserted and in ruin for quite some time at the time of the War of the Ring. The men of the North dwindled in the latter part of the Third Age, their cities and strongholds in the North were almost all in ruin and deserted at the end of the Third Age.
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*~*Call me a relic, call me what you will.
Say I'm old fashioned , say I'm over the hill.
That old whine ain't got no soul.
I'll stick to Old Toby and a Hobbit hole.*~*
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