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Sep 24, 2026
BenHOST
And it was then made a law of the royal house that the eldest child of the king, whether a man or a woman, should receive the scepter, which was an interesting detail.
BenHOST
And it comes up again later in the fight over whether or not the kings of Arnor can also be the kings of Gondor.
NateHOST
There's also a guy named Tar Palantir, the Farsighted.
NateHOST
Yeah.
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BenHOST
And it's a good thing they did because they basically ride a tidal wave into Middle Earth.
BenHOST
They were born on the wind of a great storm and cast upon the shores of Middle Earth.
BenHOST
And there they established in the northwest the Numenorean realms in exile, Arnor and Gondor.
BenHOST
And Elendil was the High King, and he dwelt in the north.
Nick MasellaHOST
Thus comes a peculiar company to Rivendell each year.
Nick MasellaHOST
There are men from the settlements of Arnor and the roads about Bree, hobbits who venture eastward from the Shire and even few dwarves from Erebor, and the Iron Hills who wish to see what the elves could possibly teach them concerning the shaping of wood and craft.
Nick MasellaHOST
Elves too attend, some already practiced in other crafts and others merely curious.
Nick MasellaHOST
Even fewer are those that have never before held a carving tool while others arrive with notebooks, sketches, and ambitious designs prepared many months beforehand.
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The disaster of the Gladden Fields took place in the second year of the Third Age, and was a major turning point for Middle-earth and the High Kingship of the Dúnedain in the north.
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After spending a year in the south re-establishing the realm of Gondor and planting a seedling of the White Tree, the sealer left the southern kingdom under the rule of his nephew Meneldil and set out for the northern kingdom Arnor.
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He was said to march in haste to assume the crown of the north and to reunite with his wife and youngest son Valandil, whom he had left in Rivendell during the War of the Last Alliance.
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So instead of choosing the longer but safer Western Road through pathless and marshy lands, Isildur chose the direct route north up the vales of Anduin, alongside the eastern foothills of the Misty Mountains.
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In Queries and Alterations, note 12, page 226, a new element was proposed, that the ring was taken from the Lord himself when Gil-galad wrestled with him, and taken by a flying elf.
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Through more rewrites, Tolkien had transformed the fairy tale, A ring slipping off a fleeing soldier into the epic secondary history we know today.
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The elf became Isildur, then Isildur, High King of Arnor and Gondor.
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The unnamed stream became the great river Anduin.
RobertHOST
The road he took went north-westwards through Rohan and the Gap of Rohan, but when Boromir turned north, it kind of petered out.
RobertHOST
There had once been a great north-south road that linked Gondor and Arnor, but that was now long gone.
RobertHOST
Near the abandoned town and bridge of Tharbad, he lost his horse trying to cross a dangerous ford and continued on foot, no doubt losing many of his provisions at the same time.
RobertHOST
It took him 110 days, about three and a half months of hard travel every day, before he finally found Rivendell, and when he got to there, he discovered that others had also been drawn there.
Robert StoryPANELIST
The Great Plague, it basically...
Robert StoryPANELIST
Well, it didn't quite... depopulate the Shire because like it wasn't super settled yet but like what we think of as a Shire now is considered to be the king's hunting grounds it wasn't Gondor at that point it was Arnor but they were dual kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor before well the Witch King happened So, yeah, it was like kind of a settled part.
Robert StoryPANELIST
So they pledged allegiance to the king of Arnor.
Robert StoryPANELIST
But the great road that goes through the Shire literally ends at Minas Tirith.
Robert StoryPANELIST
Like it goes all the way there.
HunterHOST
Um, versus-
BarryHOST
... that he got from the Barrow-downs, was made by the people of Arnor
HunterHOST
...
HunterHOST
Yeah, from the Barrow-downs, which is missing-
BarryHOST
You know?
JonathanHOST
Mm-hmm.
BarryHOST
Merry being the one that stabs, uh, stabs him and, and weakens him with that special blade because, again, that blade was crafted- Um, by the people of Arnor who had a grudge against the Witch-king specifically because the Witch-king was attacking them and their kingdom.
HunterHOST
Mm-hmm.
Alan SistoHOST
And they were born on the wind of a great storm and cast upon the shores of Middle-earth.
Alan SistoHOST
There they established in the northwest the Numenorean realms in exile, Arnor and Gondor.
Alan SistoHOST
Elendil was the High King and dwelt in the north at Annuminus, and the rule in the south was committed to his sons, Isildur and Anarion.
Alan SistoHOST
They founded there Osgiliath, between Minas Ithil and Minas Anor, not far from the confines of Mordor.
Alan SistoHOST
We read that Sauron struck too soon before his own power was rebuilt, whereas the power of Gil-galad had increased in his absence.
Alan SistoHOST
So he hid in silence for a long time, but then attacked early because, well, Elendil was still alive and we can't have that.
Alan SistoHOST
Folks, that's Numenor, and it's the last Third Age Thursday of Series 17, which is good because that really wasn't the Third Age, was it? But it is setting the stage because when we come back, we're going to skip the roll call of Appendix A1 Part 2 and jump to Appendix A1 Part 3 on Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur.
Alan SistoHOST
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RobertHOST
Welcome.
RobertHOST
Aragorn was rightful king of Arnor and Gondor, but did he want it? Watching the films, it seems not sometimes.
RobertHOST
He seems to be unsure of his own abilities and strength of character, and in particular, weighed down by his ancestor Isildur's weakness at taking the One Ring when he had the chance to destroy it.
RobertHOST
Arwen basically has to persuade him that he is Isildur's heir, not Isildur himself, so he is not bound to his fate, which is a little unfair on book Isildur, but that's the topic of another video.
RobertHOST
He had been raised in Rivendell as Estel and told no hint of his kingly inheritance.
RobertHOST
Then Elrond took him to one side and explained it all to him, giving him the ring of Barahir and the shards of Narsil, his family inheritances.
RobertHOST
He kept back the Scepter of Annúminas, however, the symbol of the kings of Arnor, saying he had yet to earn that.
RobertHOST
Aragorn then, filled with hope, we're told, so not burdened down by this new knowledge, retired to a quiet place to drink it all in, which is when Arwen walked in and he fell instantly in love.
Matthias AustinHOST
That root word makes up the first part of the name of one of the most famous Numenoreans and the person who actually led all of those ships that were mentioned in the Rime of Lore.
Matthias AustinHOST
Elendil, the High King of Arnor and Gondor and father of Isildur.
Matthias AustinHOST
And the name Elendil actually has two meanings.
Matthias AustinHOST
So firstly, Elendil can mean elf friend, something Tolkien noted in a 1954 letter to Robert Murray and reaffirmed a decade later in a 1964 letter to Christopher Bretherton.
Alan SistoHOST
And I just want to let you know, scepter comes to us through Latin from Greek skeptron, which means a staff, a stick to lean on, from a verb meaning to prop yourself up.
Alan SistoHOST
Somewhere behind the most royal object in Númenor and Arnor is a walking stick.
Alan SistoHOST
So let's move on to the third word, and this one will turn up twice this week in two different languages, lond, L-O-N-D, and londë.
Alan SistoHOST
Now, Sindarin lond, sometimes lon with two Ns, is a haven, a harbor, a sheltered landing.
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