The Realms in Exile:
This is just a list of dates and names. There is very little narrative here, so I have nothing interesting to say about it, except that the first list ends with Aragorn II (which is the Aragorn that we all know best) and the second list ends with Faramir.
Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur:
This section records important events of the North Kingdom and the Dunedain. (Aragorn is one of the line of the Dunedain. )
Eriador means "The West Land."
Arnor means "Land of the King."
At the beginning of the second paragraph, the narrator states that "at it's greatest, Arnor included all Eriador, except the regions beyond...." such and such places.
It later says that Aragorn became king of Arnor. I think that means that Gondor is either a part of Eriador or Arnor, or one of the those is part of Gondor. Gondor, however, is The Southern Kingdom. (It means 'Land of the Stone.')
In fact, it says that Arnor's lands lay on both sides of the Mountains, and that evil gathered there. It also said that the lord of that land was well known as the Witch-king, although at the time it wasn't known that he was the chief of the Ring-wraiths.
(The Witch-king perishes when Merry and Eowyn kill him in The Return of the King.)
It speaks little about the Dunedain, except to note how many are getting killed or run off from their land. After many trials, the narrator states that 'when the kingdom ended the Dunedain passed into shadows and became a secret and wandering people, and their deeds and labors were seldom sung or recorded.' That, however, is stated, as I said, later in the narrative, after The North Kindgom ends. (That'll be Arnor, I think)
Also, at a point in time here, 'it is said that at this time Rivendell was besieged.'
Also, in this narrative, a new kind of evil people are introduced: The Snowmen of Forochel.
"these are a strange, unfriendly people.....accustomed to the bitter colds of the realm of Morgoth."
Aragorn I, according the narrator, was said to have been slain by wolves. This is the Aragorn that the Aragorn that we know best (Aragorn II, King of Gondor and Arnor) was named after.
In the days of Arahad I (yet another ancestor of Aragorn's) the Orcs became prominent antagonists in the lives of the people of Middle-Earth. It was at this time that Celebrian, the wife of Elrond and the mother of Arwen Evenstar and Elladan and Elrohir was journeying to Lorien and was assaulted by Orcs. She was 'seized and carried off.' Although her sons Elladan and Elrohir rescued her, she received much torture and a poisonous wound first.
Although being healed by Elrond in body, she found no joy in Middle-Earth after that and departed in the Grey Havens and passed over the sea.
At the end of the narrative, it talks of how, after Aragorn II became King, he made laws about how none of the Big People should cross into the Shire, and also how he bid his own laws. He would meet his friends at the Great Bridge, and all who wish to see him, and sometimes they come and stay in his house as long as they have a mind too. 'Thain Peregrin' (although I'm sure all of us know him better as Pippin) 'has been there many times.'
It states that Master Samwise the Mayor has been there also, and that his daughter Elanor the Fair is one of the maids of the Queen Evenstar.
At the end it says that Aragorn lived to be two hundred and ten years old. In Aragorn Elessar the dignity of the kings of old was renewed.
Anna
There's Master Samwise the Mayor at the top. :)
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