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| | LotR Fanatics Library: Founding of Arnor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Elendil the Tall with four ships landed in the North, in the land of Lindon, realm of Gil-Galad, while his sons Isildur and Anàrion, with the remaining five ships, were driven along to the southern coasts, eventually landing up the Anduin and establishing the Kingdom of Gondor. |
 | | This kingdom was called Arnor, which is “royal land”, because, as being ruled directly by Elendil, High-King of the Númenoreans in Middle-Earth, it held precedence over the Southern Kingdom, Gondor, which he entrusted to his sons. |
 | | The Númenorean population of Arnor was never very numerous, but it seems that it preserved the purity of its ancestry, avoiding as much as possible intermarriages with the native population, contrary to what was soon to happen in Gondor. |
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