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The Rangers of Arnor and their lost realm have been compared to medieval tribes and societies of the real world. Like the [[Franks]] after the [[fall of the Western Roman Empire]] or the Christianized [[Anglo-Saxons]], the northern Rangers inhabit a "romanized nobility" and keep protecting the borders of the "realms of good" while Gondor in the south is decaying and finally arrives on the verge of destruction.<ref>{{cite book |title=J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TyKDAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT81 |first=Bradley J. |last=Birzer |author-link=Bradley J. Birzer |publisher=Open Road Media |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-49764-891-3}}</ref> This protection of the weak from evil by Aragorn and his rangers has been identified as an inherently [[Christianity in Middle-earth|Christian motif]] in Tolkien's design of his [[Tolkien's legendarium|legendarium]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRiViwMylSUC&pg=PA74 |title=The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings |first=Fleming |last=Rutledge |author-link=Fleming Rutledge |page=74 |year=2004 |publisher=[[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]] |isbn=978-0-80282-497-4}}</ref>
The Rangers have been compared to the 'Spoonbills' in [[John Buchan]]'s 1923 novel [[Midwinter (novel)|''Midwinter'']], while the Ranger-like 'Lakewalkers' in ''[[The Sharing Knife]]'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] have been seen as part of a deliberate commentary on Middle-earth.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98VQ3gHsVsMC&pg=PA165 |title=Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays |editor-last=Fisher |editor-first=Jason |editor-link=Jason Fisher |chapter=Reading John Buchan in Search of Tolkien |first=Mark T. |last=Hooker |page=165 |year=2011 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |isbn=978-0-78648-728-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4RrxCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA71 |title=Lois McMaster Bujold |first=Edward |last=James |pages=71–72 |year=2015 |publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]] |isbn=978-0-25209-737-9}}</ref>
== Portrayal in adaptations ==
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