Reason Behind The Decline Of Arnor And The Rise Of Gondor.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

Makes one wonder if things up north were really so hunky-dory during the Fourth Age after all...

I'm not very optimistic about the restored North Kingdom.

Dúnedain of Gondor would have been needed to kick-start growth in Arnor, and Gondor itself was a shadow of its former population by the Fourth Age. I'd wonder how many Gondorians would actually have been willing to uproot themselves from the only life they'd ever known to go north and deal with the cold, snow, and a long-forsaken kingdom.

I think it's more likely the Men who ended up being the majority in Eriador were those with their origins in Bree or Dunland. I just can't see Arnor ever regaining its first-millenium Third Age glory, or even being on par with Fourth Age Gondor.