Author’s note:
This story, Days of the Dunedain, picks up decades after the end of Dol Guldor which was published in Stories of Arda in the fall of 2018. Dol Guldur was the tale of the expulsion of Sauron from Dol Guldur in T.A 2063. Gandalf, along with Ararnarth, first chieftain of the Dunedain, his son Arahael and others brought about the beginning of the Watchful Peace.
At the end of the tale, Arahael lays his father to rest and rides off to meet his young son Aranuir to patrol the lands as is their duty and destiny.
Dol Guldur was unfortunately deleted from the archive in a recent breach of the site. It may be restored at a later date.
This story, Days of the Dunedain was also deleted in the breach. It is now restored. Many may have read it already after it was published last fall so it may not receive much further interest. Nonetheless I am reposting it since a new story about the Dunedain may be published by the author this spring, tying into Days of the Dunedain in some fashion.
So, what of that life of the early chieftains? Little is written as there was quiet on the land and no great deeds to be done.
Yet they had lives and made good of them.
Days of the Dunedain tells us of those lives through a now very old Aranuir, his son Aravir, and grandson Aragorn I. A small slice of their days in the spring of T.A 2246 with some surprises, lessons learned, and futures accepted.