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Originally Posted by The Mouth of Sauron
There must have been some sort of permanent settlement for the Rangers of the North at the end of the 3rd age .
40 or so rode south to join Aragorn, " all that could be gathered in haste " , so presumably a minimum of say 60 Rangers would have lived in the north . They obviously had womenfolk and children so a sizeable settlement must have been somewhere .
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As far as I know, Tolkien mentioned somewhere (Letters? Well, where else) that there was a "Ranger HQ" and settlement down there in the Angle between Mitheithel and Bruinen. Perhaps someone else could serve with an exact quotation?
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