Posted: January 10, 2000 at 17:33:34: by Gildor
>>>What happened to the Hill-folk of Rhudaur? Were they destroyed by Angmar, or when Angmar was destroyed? Because in the Hobbit, the three trolls are talking about eating village, and then Gandalf says that reports had come to Rivendell that three trolls had driven away the local inhabitants before going into the forest. Who lived there to be driven away? I was always under the impression that only the Rangers lived anywhere close to there, but I think the Rangers could handle three trolls. Were there still hill-folk living there?
Anyway, I think that there were still some people living in those areas, even in only some Rangers. The "empty lands" of Eriador outside the Shire and Breeland had at least some people there, because the bounders of the Shire had to turn people back from the borders; also, remember that Aragorn said that within a day's march of Bree were foes that would freeze Barliman's heart. So I think there were still some remnants of the hill-folk living closeby.
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