Thread:High Prince Imrahil/@comment-26210095-20160319125103

Maybe both the Nimrodel and Castamir's Rangers came about during the kin-strife. The appendixes of the Return of the King say that in Gondor, suspicion often fell upon the lineage of the kings and the lords of Gondor, and many fled and joined the rebels at Umbar. The Nimrodel Rangers could have begun as the Gondorian "Spanish Inquisition", but then evolved into the military group it is today. Castamir's Rangers could have been Castamir's secret police to watch his people, and they survived in Umbar 