Posted: January 11, 2000 at 15:59:25: by Michael Martinez
: : I imagine many of the people passing up the Greenway would
: : have been Dunlendings or people from West Rohan who were of
: : mixed blood, but maybe also some Rohirrim and people from
: : Gondor. I think Aragorn and Eomer would have tried to reach
: : some sort of arrangement with the Dunlendings to help them
: : get over their antipathy for the Rohirrim.: It seems that Tolkien had a profound dislike for the
: Dunlendings. I don't think he intended them to settle any new
: lands after the restoration of peace. I think the people coming
: up the Greenway may have been the original population of Arnor
: returning from exile. I thought he portrayed them rather sympathetically. What led you to believe he didn't like them? Of course, the Dunlendings are not required for a recolonization of Arnor, but there's no way the original population could return from exile, as you put it. Bree, the Shire, Buckland, and whatever wandering folk existed were all that remained of the original population.
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