For instances,
hill-men were allowed to enter the
Arnor Council and get elected?(or appointed?) as Council
Men or not, or hill-men military personnel were restricted of their promotion or not, yeah, anything about racial policies changes in each reign of Arnor
Kings, is what I'm asking. I hope this make you understand enough what I mean 😅
Okay - I'll try to address that. There just seemed like so many different directions we could go from the first time you brought it up, so I wanted to narrow it down.
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When
Elendil and his four
ships of Exiles from
Numenor came to
Middle-Earth and began to establish Arnor, I think there were two kinds of people living there:
Dunedain whose descendants had begun to colonize
Eriador many years before - and because they were a sea-faring people, I suspect they were mainly along the principal waterways. But who's to say if that's so - they've been there long enough. Some time before the Fall of Numenor - I think Pelargir had become a preferred destination for those Faithful who emigrated to Middle-Earth. And I think those in Eriador were among
the Faithful, for they settled in lands under the dominion of
Gil-Galad (which he seems to have freely given up to Elendil's rule), rather than go to south-lands, where the King's Men dominated.
The second group pre-dated the early
Numenorean colonists and were largely the Gwathurim (if I spell it correctly). These were the Bree-folk, and were likely in many other parts of Eriador. They were not so advanced - and probably lived simpler lives, maybe not so numerous.
I can't say how they were integrated into Arnor governmentally - and we don't know any particulars about how Arnor's government was structured - other than that they had a King. They seemed to be tolerant of the Gwathurim - and likely allowed them to run their own towns. Probably similar when the
halflings migrated into Arthedain years later - though they seem to have been mistreated (maybe not officially) before that, in Rhudaur. Maybe the Gwathurim paid taxes to the
King of Arnor, maybe not, maybe in certain circumstances. Military - they could probably serve. A Dunedain man who desired to make the military a career could be in it for several decades - 60, 80, 100 years - maybe more. Regular folks couldn't keep up.
My guess would be that most of the high positions of Arnor went to nobles, and that the noble positions were hereditary, beginning with the leaders of the Exiles who came off those four ships. I doubt there would have been room in high positions for Gwathurim at the Kingdom level (though the local level is a different thing). And it's likely that even the long-time Dunedain colonists from centuries before were initially second-class citizens in Arnor - though in a few generations there would have been much intermarriage among these (they were all Dunedain, after all), and maybe less distinction between old colonists and Exiles.
These theories largely follow one of the articles written by Michael Martinez, and referenced before. It's: "Seeking the Wayward Children of Numenor" - interesting read.
Much speculation.
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The Hill-Men could have been of the same racial stock as the Gwathurim, though we don't know. They appear to have become very much integrated into Rhudaur, particularly after the rise of
Angmar. And that eventually became lethal to the Dunedain of Rhudaur. If there were racial biases involved, I would say that the Dunedain of Rhudaur were very tolerant and inclusive of the Hill-Men - but that the Hill-Men hated the Dunedain and worked toward their destruction, especially as they gained more and more power, backed by their buddies in Angmar. Lots of changes there in just over 100 years - from around 1300 to 1409 of
the Third Age.
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Does this answer what you were asking? JRRT certainly gives us nothing more specific on all this.
