RE: Arthedain...
It would have been a massive strain on Gondor to re-populate Arnor. There were never many in the north, and the fact that Gondor did not accept Arvedui's claim to the crown a few years earlier states in deed that Gondor was of the line of Anorien, and had not concern with the north. Yet in battle they came when summoned by Arvedui, albeit too late to save the kingdom.
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When Elendil fell, Isildur departed to take up the high kingship of his father, and committed the rule of the south in like manner to the son of his brother. He did not relinquish his royalty in Gondor, nor intend that the realm of Elendil should be divided forever.
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