Of all the Dunedain who made kingdoms upon Middle earth, the most famous were the Gondor men of the South Kingdom. Isidur and Anarion, raised the white towers of Gondor, their father Elendil built the North Kingdom. At their height, Gondor kings ruled all Middle Earth west of the sea of Rhun.

Within Gondor their were five great cities, two were major ports. Pelargir was on the banks of the River Anduin. Dol Amroth was the other.

The three cities of first rank within Gondor were Minas Ithil "The Tower of the Moon" , Minas Anor Tower of the Sun. and theres was the capital Osgiliath Citadel of the Stars. Gondor has suffered many attacks from its enemies and in 1636 a Great Plague broke out. Wipeing out most of its population.

Minas Ithil fell to the Orcs, and was renamed Mians Morgul Tower of Wraiths. In 2475 the Urul-Hai attacked and badly damaged Osgiliath.

In this way the realm of Gondor was reduced, until the War of the Ring. It was in this time the men of Gondor won their greatest fame.

The tale of that War is well known and needs no retelling here, suffice to say the Power of Sauron was defeated by Gondor and its allies, and His dark power was ended forever.

The Rangers of Ilithien

At the end of the twenty ninth centuary of the Third Age of the Sun, Turin ll , the ruling Steward of Gondor, decreed that a brotherhood of knights be formed in North Ithilien, for Gondors power in that land was threatened by enemies from Mordor and Morgul. So the band called the Rangers of Ithilien was formed. These knights were dressed in foresters green,and fought with bows,spears,ans swords. In the years before the War of the Ring, their captain was Faramir, second son of Denethor, Gondor’s Ruling Steward.. Greatest of their dwellings was that refuge of caves and tunnels behind a great waterfall that looked far over the Vales of Anduin. This place was called Henneth Annûn, the "window of the sunset" .

Rangers of the North

Through many centuaries of the Third Age of the Sun, in the lands of Eriador, there roamed grim-faced men clothed in cloaks of forest-green or grey, with clasps like silver stars on their left shoulder. They were grey eyed, armed with sword and spear, and wore long leather boots. By the common folk of Eriador they were called Rangers, and they were thought to be a strange,unfriendly people. But the Rangers were in fact the last nobles and knights of that once great Dúnedain realm of Arnor, and their chieftain was the High Dúnedain king. In the years before the War of the Ring, this was Aragorn,son of Arathorn, who as a Ranger was called Strider.

At the wars end, Aragorn was crowned King Elessar, lord of the twin Dúnedain realms of Arnor and Gondor, and the Rangers were honoured among the greatest Men of the Reunited Kingdom.

Mormegil, the Vala Manwë