![]() ![]() The Kingdom of Gondor was waning, and the strength that the Northmen brought was needed. Having just written a years-long roleplay based on the Kin-Strife, I studied it deeply. They wanted Gondor to remain a largely Numenorized Kingdom, and didn't want the Northern Culture to polute (as they believed) their traditions.Īll these three points are inter-related with eachother.Ī few quick questions about the Kin-strife.Ĭlick to expand. Some of them possibly still had doubts about the sincerity of the Northern Princes and held them in suspicion. They wanted the power to remain in purely Numenorean hands that they still believed that the other clans were much inferior to them and werent worthy of power-a matter inter-related with the first point.ģ. The preservation of their ancient dignity the belief that they were above the ordinary men that they should be believed as helpers and Kings but never Equals, and the throwning of a mingled lineage king was negate this claim.Ģ. These Gondorian's were by no means evil according to the usual defination of the word but they did possess some traits of their own.įor me there might be three reasons for which the Gondorian's might not want the mingling of the lines.ġ. Most of the traits were inherited by the Gondorian's who afterall were the progeny of the ancient Numenorean's. Offcourse this dignity turned first into self-preservation and then into pride which ultimately led to the downfall of Numeneor. Of old, even when the shadow had not fallen on Numenorean's they maintained this dignity. The Kingdom was rich, prospours, no immediate threat of war from outside, giving the pople plenty of time to eat, enjoy and conspirate.īy favoring the Numenorean's the Valar gave the Numenorean's a greater status then the ordinary men they were appointed as the ruler of men, tall sea Kings and great captains. We have to see why It is the main cause.Īt that time the Numenorean's were pretty much passing through the wanning stage of the noontide of their realm. So could the disaffection of the Southern Dunedain stem from the fact that the Ruling House of Gondor had turned it's eyes northward and felt that what power the southern lords held in royal court (I'm thinking of Castamir here) was falling away from them? Castamir was an ambitious man - was he using the Marriage of Valacar as a pretext for a power grab? Were the fears of the Rebels later justified by history or was the dilution of Numenorean blood inevitable in a wide land surrounded by many different races or indeed necessary to insure the future of the Nation as a whole?ġ. A region which would have enjoyed much prosperity during the glory years of the Ship-Kings, an era in which Gondor had once again achieved some measure of the greatness which their Numenorean ancestors had possessed. Does the cause go any deeper than that? Could it be said that Dunedain of Gondor also feared the spreading of Northman customs and culture? The center of the rebellion, it is said, was the southern, seaward parts of Gondor. This, it seems, is the chief cause of the Kinstrife: Fear among the Nobilty of Northman blood in the Royal House. Also they were unwilling to except as lord her son, who though he was now called Eldacar, had been born in an alien country and was named in his youth Vinitharya, a name of his mother's people.' ![]() His queen had been a fair and noble lady, but short lived according to the fate of lesser men, and the Dunedain feared that her descendents would prove the same and fall from the majesty of the kings of men. There was already rebellion in the southern provinces when King Valacar grew old. 'For the high men of Gondor already looked askance at the Northmen among them and it was a thing unheard of before that the heir of the crown, or any son of the King, should wed one of lesser and alien race. From this Marriage came later the war of the Kin-strife. ![]() ![]() He grew to love the Northern lands and people, and he married Vidumavi, daughter of Vidugavia. But Valacar far exceeded his father's designs. In 1250 Romendacil sent his son Valacar as an ambassador to dwell for a while with Vidugavia and make himself aquainted with the language, manners, and policies of the Northmen. ![]()
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