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Arnor was originally favoured over the more southern regions ( Gondor ) because the Elves under Gil-galad lived in nearby Lindon.
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Arnor and was
As told in " The Quest of Erebor ", Gandalf states that the restoration of the dwarven kingdom of Erebor would later prove to be a bulwark against Sauron's Northern allies, even as the main thrust was against Gondor, which otherwise could have done great harm in Arnor and The Shire.
After the battle, the kingdom of Arnor was destroyed, and in absence of the king, the Hobbits elected a Thain of the Shire from among their own chieftains.
According to the narrative, Gondor was founded by brothers Isildur and Anárion, exiles from the downfallen island kingdom of Númenor, and along with Arnor in the north served as a last stronghold of the Men of the West.
He captured Minas Ithil, but Isildur escaped and fled by ship to Arnor ; meanwhile, Anárion was able to defend Osgiliath.
After the second and final defeat of Sauron, the Kingship was restored, with Aragorn crowned as King Elessar of the Reunited Kingdom of Arnor and Gondor.
To the north-west of the kingdom originally lay the realm of Arnor ; to the north, Gondor was neighboured by the Wilderland and, after its settlement, by Rohan ; to the north-east, by the land of Rhûn ; to the east, by Sauron's realm of Mordor ; to the south, by the deserts of Harad.
Before the arrival of the Dúnedain Arnor was home to Middle Men of Edain stock, and the early colonists soon interbred with the indigenous population.
After the death of its tenth king, Arnor was shaken by civil war between his three sons.
The palantír of Amon Sûl, most powerful of the three in Arnor, was kept for centuries in the Watchtower of Amon Sûl.
When Arnor was divided into three kingdoms, all of them claimed Amon Sûl, largely because of the palantír.
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age bears some similarities to Elrond's narrative in The Fellowship of the Ring during the chapter " The Council of Elrond "; both do not divulge any details about how Arnor was destroyed and how Gondor became kingless.
However afterwards, Arnor became subject to attacks from the north-eastern kingdom of Angmar, a kingdom that was ruled by the Witch-king, leader of the Nazgûl.
It was also adopted for daily use by the Númenóreans, and remained somewhat in use in the Realms in Exile of Gondor and Arnor.
The Third Age was also characterized by the rise and decline of the Númenórean kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor.
In the north, Arnor was long gone, but the Hobbits of the Shire prospered, getting their first Took Thain, and colonizing Buckland.
Once owned by Elendil, the first King of Arnor, it was an emblem of royalty in the North Kingdom.
On his journey back to the northern capital of Arnor, his retinue was ambushed by orcs.
The bundled word processor was produced by Arnor, and could read Locoscript files but saved them in its own format.
Arnor, or the Northern Kingdom, was a kingdom of the Dúnedain in the land of Eriador in Middle-earth.
Arnor is the territory of Middle-earth associated with the High Kings of the line of Elendil, the kingship of which was restored at the crowning of Elessar ( Aragorn ) after the War of the Ring at the start of the Fourth Age.
Arnor was founded at the end of the Second Age () by Elendil, whose sons Isildur and Anárion founded Gondor at the same time.
Before the foundation of Arnor there was already a sizable Númenórean population living there, a result of the slow emigration of Númenóreans which had started under Tar-Meneldur and especially Tar-Aldarion.
Before the arrival of the Dúnedain Arnor was home to Middle Men of Edain stock, and the early colonists soon interbred with the indigenous population.
After the death of its tenth king, Eärendur, in, Arnor was shaken by civil war between his three sons.
Arnor and originally
The coastal people that originally inhabited the lands of Arnor and Gondor were the Gwathuirim, whose language was " Southern Mannish ".
During Aragorn's reign, the Reunited Kingdom expanded to retake all territories that had originally belonged to both Arnor and Gondor at their greatest extents, excluding only Rohan ( the grant of which he renewed ), and the Shire, the Druadan Forest, and Fangorn Forest ( which became protectorates ).
Arnor and over
Both Elendil and Anárion had been slain in the war, so Isildur conferred rule of Gondor upon Anárion's son Meneldil and went north to ascend to the kingship of Arnor, retaining suzerainty over Gondor as High King of the Dúnedain.
They create realms governed in the Númenórean way — Elendil rules over Arnor in the North, and Isildur and Anárion rule together in the great country of Gondor in the South.
The Mannish descendants of Elros ( the Kings of Arnor ) now claimed the title High King, although there is no indication that this referred anything other than a High Kingship over the Dúnedain.
For several centuries, Arnor's rulers styled themselves High King, following the precedent of Elendil, who ruled Arnor directly while holding suzerainty over Gondor ; the rulers of Gondor, by contrast, were merely styled King.
The eldest son, Amlaith, claimed Kingship over all Arnor but was reduced to only ruling the region of Arthedain as his kingdom, while the other sons founded the kingdoms of Cardolan and Rhudaur.
Arnor and more
By this time Arnor had been destroyed and the Line of Isildur had gone into hiding, so no more claims were expected.
More and more people flee from the North, and although Angmar is defeated by the beginning of the third millennium of Third Age, Arnor is no more.
After the fall of Sauron, Arnor was safe again for human population, and although it remained less populated than Gondor to the south, in time Arnor became a more densely populated area again, even if it had dwindled in size due to the independence of the Shire.
Shortly afterwards, a Gondorian army under Eärnur managed to destroy Angmar with help of Círdan, but Arthedain and all of Arnor were no more, and the kingship had ended.
Arnor and southern
The King of Arnor held the overlordship of all the land from the Bay of Forochel to the River Poros on the southern borders of Ithilien, and from the Blue Mountains to the Mountains of Shadow.
Some stylistic analyses consider the ultimate importance of Arnor is to stand as a literary device contrasting the southern kingdom of Gondor.
The city of Tharbad at the southern end of the former realm of Arnor was ruined and deserted.
Arnor and regions
The name Rhudaur appears to be dialect Sindarin for " Eastern Forests ", and indeed Rhudaur was the most easterly of the three regions in which Arnor was divided.
The resulting polyglot was then taken up as the language of trade and diplomacy throughout all of the regions that at one time or another were controlled by Arnor and Gondor, and even beyond that along trade lines at least as far east as Dale and the Lonely Mountain.
Arnor and Gondor
Gondor is often referred to in the books as the South-kingdom or Southern Realm, and together with Arnor as the Númenórean Realms in Exile.
; Enedhwaith: The wide land between rivers Isen and Greyflood, stated in different Tolkien's writings either to have been held by Gondor and Arnor jointly, to have been a part of the South-kingdom, or to have belonged to neither of them.
The palantíri were " seeing-stones " of Elendil, four of which were placed in strongholds of Gondor: Osgiliath, Minas Anor, Minas Ithil and Isengard — and were used by Kings or their servants for surveillance of the lands and communication both within the realm and with Arnor.
The Byzantine Empire and Gondor were both only echoes of older states ( the Roman Empire and the unified kingdom of Elendil ), yet each proved to be stronger than their sister-kingdoms ( the Western Roman Empire and Arnor, respectively ).
However, some of the Faithful escaped and founded the twin kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor.
In time, one of their Chieftains, Aragorn II, restored Arnor and Gondor as the Reunited Kingdom.
When Elendil founded the Kingdom of Arnor its borders were quickly extended towards the river Greyflood, and Gondor likewise extended up through Enedwaith.
Of these, Elendil took seven with him on his flight to Middle-earth, and after the Kingdoms in Exile had been established, they were distributed among seven places: four in Gondor and three in Arnor.
The followers of Elendil established two Númenórean realms in exile: Arnor, the high kingdom, in the North, and Gondor in the south.
Heirs of royal blood are chosen to lead Arnor and Gondor.
For a long time, no one suspects that the same force that had driven the attacks upon Arnor is now fighting Gondor.
When Elendil with his sons escaped to Middle-earth and established the realms of Arnor and Gondor, Sauron tried to conquer Gondor before it could take root.
Also, at the end of The Silmarillion, " Akallabêth ", or ' the falling of a star ,' recounts the fall of Númenor and its kings, and also the rise of Gondor and Arnor.
Realms of Men prospered, as the reunited Númenórean kingdoms in exile ( as the Reunited Kingdom of Gondor and Arnor ) under King Elessar and later his son Eldarion.
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