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The second of the two great nations of Men founded in Middle-Earth by Elendil after the Downfall of N?menor, the other being Arnor in the north. Gondor was at first ruled jointly by Elendil?s sons Isildur and An?rion. Both Elendil and An?rion were lost in the Siege of Barad-d?r, and his brother Isildur soon afterwards in the Disaster of the Gladden Fields, and so the Kingship of Gondor fell on An?rion?s son Meneldil. Thus, the Kings of Gondor were descendants of An?rion through many generations until the time of E?rnur.
When E?rnur was lost in Minas Morgul in III 2050, the rule of Gondor was taken up by the King?s Steward, Mardil Voronw?; the death of E?rnur was not certain, and so Mardil and the Stewards who followed him pledged to rule ?until the King comes back?. Unlikely though this seemed, it happened almost a thousand years later in III 3019 when Aragorn II Elessar, descendant by right line of Isildur, elder brother of An?rion, reclaimed the throne of Gondor.
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Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien’s writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth by the end of the Third Age. The third volume of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, is concerned with the events in Gondor during the War of the Ring and with the following restoration of the realm. Further history of the kingdom can be glimpsed from the appendices to the book, which also cast light on its origins.
According to the narrative, Gondor was founded by brothers Isildur and Anárion, exiles from the downfallen island kingdom of Númenor, and together with Arnor in the north served as last strongholds of the Men of the West. Gondor gradually declined in course of the Third Age, being continually weakened by the allies of the Dark Lord Sauron, and was only restored in dominance after his final defeat and the crowning of Aragorn.
Based upon long-foreseen conceptions, the history and geography of Gondor was developed in stages, as a part of the major extension of his legendarium that Tolkien undertook during the writing of The Lord of the Rings. The role of the kingdom emerged gradually, from a side “adventure” in the plot becoming the focal figure of later writings. Textual history was traced by Christopher Tolkien in the volumes of The History of Middle-earth, and the overall subject has gained attention among later researchers and fans.
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