Why should I? If the men don't have to voluntarily give up autonomy to farm and herd, then why should I give up mine to mind home and hearth? Because I'm a woman? *snorts* Ridiculous reasoning! If I were good enough to fight during troubled times, then I am good enough to mind the peace as well. Whatever happened to all those Barrow Wights? Was there a technological leap that brought the Reunited Kingdom up to the level of the 17-18th century like the Shire? Over time, did the North experience a Renaissance? Was it ever able to approach the level of Gondor? What were the chief threat that FA Rangers face-outlaws? the occasional troll?ĭid their Rangers fathers require second and succeeding generations to learn woodcraft skills as well as martial skills? Did they require that their children do Ranger service? How many generations did it take for their offspring to become decadent and jaded? Was there a Ranger Corps established for the North?ĭid a female Rangers lose her autonomy? Did she become the Lady of the Manor as we conventionally think of them? How about succeding generations of daughters?ĭid the Rangers become gentlemen farmers? Were Gondorian troops quartered in the North? Were Rangers of the North given estates in Gondor and did Gondorian nobles receive estates in the North (like England did with the Scottish nobles)? Here are some that come to mind:ĭid King Elessar grant/restore estates to the Rangers in the Northern Kingdom?ĭid all Rangers become nobles of the Reunited Kingdom? I know I have questions about the fate of the Rangers of the North. Then I of course discovered that the Kingâ€™s Peace would contain no tales worth recounting and his wars would have little interest after the overthrow of Sauron but that almost certainly a restlessness would appear about then, owing to the (it seems) inevitable boredom of Men with the good: there would be secret societies practising dark cults, and â€˜orc-cultsâ€™ among adolescents.)â€¦

(Except the beginning of a tale supposed to refer to the end of the reign of Eldaron about 100 years after the death of Aragorn. Â€¦I have written nothing beyond the first few years of the Fourth Age.

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