Greetings everyone. How is it going? Welcome to the history of Fornost. I'm really excited to be doing this
So let's get right into it. So Fornost was founded in in the year
3320 of the Second Age now, it was a military fortress built in a strategic position
between the North Downs and the
Weather Hills now it was built to guard this gap which was in between these two places against incursions by
Rhudaur and/or Angmar now Angmar which is going to be very important to the history of
Fornost, and we're gonna talk about that in just a little bit, but they were a kingdom from the north led by the Witch-king
now Fornost was the capital city of the
Dúnedain kingdom of Arthedain and possibly the capital of the kingdom of Arnor now the kingdom of
Arnor came first, but after King Eärendur's death the
Kingdom of Arnor was split into three kingdoms Arthedain, Cardolan,
and Rhudaur, now Fornost remained an important city as a capital of Arthedain after.
Fornost was probably the capital of Arnor but this isn't like
specified 100 percent but it was a very big city. It was very important
So it probably was
now in the third in
1974 of the Third Age the Witch-king of Angmar
Led his forces to invade these three kingdoms of Arnor
Now a long story short, it didn't really go well for Arthedain or the two other kingdoms
Now the Witch-king was ruthless and he actually even used the Dúnedain dead in the war now
what he did is he went to the Barrow Downs, and he actually raised the the
Dúnedain dead to join his army
Which would not only lower the morale of the Dúnedain fighting him
But would also bolster his own forces, which was very smart
but obviously very ruthless now the last king of Arthedian Arvedui, or
Arvedui,
didn't give up without a fight and actually
resisted for a time after the two other kingdoms fell so Arthedain was the last to survive
now
he held at the
North Downs, however
he eventually just couldn't keep fighting and he fled into the
northern wastes and was lost in the Ice-Bay of Forochel
Now Fornost was the last city of the once great kingdom of Arthedain and Arnor
So if the Witch-king was able to conquer this, he would have effectively won the war which he did
after last King
Arvedui died the Witch-king occupied Fornost and began to populate it with evil folk most likely those of his army
It didn't last for more than a year and Gondor led by Eärnur comes to Fornost
rescue in the next year with allies from Lindon, Rivendell, and the former territories of Arnor
Now the the Witch-king was defeated, his army destroyed. However, he
escaped as he did appear in The Lord of the Rings films
so even though the force the
forces of Angmar were pushed back the Dúnedain population was decimated and it was and they were too few to
Rebuild the once great during Dúnedain people
however
Fornost
wasn't completely destroyed. It wasn't burned to the ground. It became a ruin and it was not resettled
Yeah, and it gradually fell in
into ruin, however, the Dúnedain kept going and they became known as the
Rangers and were wandering Guardians and Aragorn was one of them and he obviously held the blood of the
thought
broken kings of
Gondor so very important and a cool fact is that the Dúnedain were descended from the
Númenóreans, which were the greatest
race of men in
Middle-Earth
so only the Dúnedain would a visit Fornost
But most others steered clear as it became known as the Deadmen's Dike and many believed it was haunted
Fornost's History
does not end actually there, it was rebuilt in the fourth age after the War of the Rings which is the
Which is the events that take place in the Lord of the Rings
So yeah, it was rebuilt in the fourth age by King Elessar
so that brings us to the end of the history of Fornost and the great thing about this is that
The story doesn't have to end there you can take it in whichever way you want
Does it become the capital of great Kingdom once again, or does it become abandoned?
It's all up to you, but I really enjoyed
Making this video. Thank you so much for watching guys
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