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Originally Posted by Snowdog
From my original readings of the Appendices, I always had it in my head that the north were more Númenórean in their thinking.
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I'm not sure if either quite was. The Northern line let the South basically become a sovereign state. I'd have been like, "I'm the High-King, don't get it twisted." The waning of the Dúnedain involved kin-strife and war in the South, also the fact that such was the way of Middle-earth, and also the splitting of the kingdoms. The Kingdom split, members of the kings-house split, in the North and in the South especially, and they split with custom not only mingling with lesser Men, but becoming more and more like them. In the South they were still great mariners and Gondor became a lesser version of Númenor. Although behavior in the South to members of the King's house led to relatives forsaking their lineage and mingling with lesser Men, sometimes they were killed off, or banished, or ended up like the 22nd King of Gondor and his immediate family.