Board Thread:Lore/@comment-25931200-20150421210214/@comment-25931200-20150501065301

TheblueWizard wrote: the northern Dúnedain were a dwindling and presumably widely scattered folk: when  Halbarad received a message to gather as many of the Rangers as he could and lead them south to Aragorn’s aid, only thirty men (the Grey Company) were available at short notice for the journey. The surviving Dúnedain population of Arnor retreated to the Angle south of  Rivendell, while smaller populations made isolated settlements in far western Eriador. The keyword here is "at short notice", many Dúnedain would be in the woods and unreachable as nobody knew exactly where they are, others would have duties elswhere that could not be abandoned, others yet were too far and would take too long to get there. I would guess Halbarad just gathered what Dúnedain he had on hand wherever he was and rushed into Aragorn's help. Given time he may have gthered several thousand men(which is a lot by LOTR standards) but by then everything would be over and they could have just gone home.