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Exactly right! 'Arvedui' is translated 'last-king', a name given to him by Malbeth the Seer. Malbeth explicitly says that he's either going to be the last king of Arthedain because it will be destroyed, or because he will wind up as High King.
It takes... a fair amount of gumption for the ragtag king of a shattered realm (two-thirds of which have been conquered by Angmar!) to say 'hey, I'll happily take over your prosperous southern kingdom' and expect it to stick, but that's Arvedui for you: he was never afraid to throw himself at a challenge.
(Which didn't exactly end well for him, but hey, he tried.)
Anyway, over to you!
hS
PS: The events surrounding the loss of the two Dunedain royal lines within a generation of each other are one of the few incidents in Tolkien where it's entirely possible to root for both sides of a conflict. I have said, and maintain, that the period would make an excellent candidate for Amazon's Game of Middle-earth Thrones thingy - not least because there's so little canon material for them to break!
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