Men of Gondor

Men of Gondor describes the Men of Gondor.

They were originally descended from the Númenórean colonists who settled there throughout most of the Second Age and their noble kin who escaped the destruction of Númenór in SA 3319.

Description & Historical accounts
Being mostly of Númenórean stock and ruled by exiled Númenórean overlords, the people continued most of the customs and traditions of Númenór but over the centuries they mixed more and more with the men of Middle-earth. One of these peoples was the Northmen who lived in Rhovanion, and Gondor ever needing allies as well as friends began acquainting themselves with these men by the mid Third Age. Brave and valiant but by the standards of the Dúnedain shorter lived, the Northmen gradually had more and more to do with Gondor and one of its heirs to the throne Valacar, who lived and worked with them in their own land as an ambassador married one of their noble ladies setting the stages for the Kin-strife.

Over the next few hundred years afterward, war, rebellion, and plague severally weakened the blood of the Dúnedain in Gondor. The Men of Gondor are often described to have ruddy good looks. Their rulers though survived and retained some of the ancient customs. As the centuries rolled on into the late Third Age, the Men of Gondor accustomed to war and invasion became a hardy and stern people more likened to Middle-earth. Summed up in the phase, "when heads are at a loss bodies must serve."

By the time of just before War of the Ring, the Men of Gondor grappled constantly with the forces of Mordor giving and regaining ground to it. There leader Denethor II could foresee nothing but a victory on the battlefield against or total doom, so when it became clear that Sauron's lost Ring of Power had been found, he and people like his son and others want the Ring to be taken by Gondor and used against the enemy as a weapon. The Men of Gondor are spared the folly of this choice when Denethor youngest son Faramir lets Frodo and Sam continue to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.

After the war was won and Aragorn II Elessar was crowned, the Men of Gondor were rekindled with the ancient tradition of the Dúnedain of old when Elendil founded the Two Kingdoms with his two sons: Isildur and Anárion. They thrived and prospered as part of the Reunited Kingdom into Fourth Age and beyond.

Other Terminologies
In certain circles of Tolkien fandom, the people of Gondor are referred to as Gondorians but in the Lord of the Rings there is no mention of this with Tolkien referring to them only as Men of Gondor.

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Гондорцы