Em O Retorno do Rei , Halbarad e pelo menos duas dúzias de outros Arqueiros do Norte vêm em auxílio de Aragorn. Halbarad, e possivelmente alguns outros, morrem na Batalha dos Campos de Pelennor, e é possível que mais pessoas tenham morrido na Batalha de Morannon.
Mais tarde, quando Gandalf e os hobbits retornam a Bree, Butterbur, o hospedeiro, lamenta a partida dos Rangers, que levou a uma deterioração significativa nas condições de vida em toda a região. Gamdalf conforta Butterbur dizendo que os Rangers voltaram para a área, cavalgando consigo mesmo e com os hobbits.
Mas os hobbits são as únicas pessoas que andam com Gandalf, então parece que Gandalf está se referindo aos hobbits.
Tudo isso me levou a imaginar o que aconteceu com os Rangers depois da guerra, para onde eles foram, e se eles voltaram para o norte antes de Gandalf e companhia, por que eles não fizeram nada sobre Sharkey e seus companheiros? goons.
Observação: esta é a conversa em questão. Pouco antes disso, Butterbur menciona quão perigosas as estradas se tornaram; os hobbits dizem que não encontraram problemas se aproximando de Bree; Carrapicho diz que suas espadas e armaduras teriam espantado os rufiões, e Gandalf diz que a Hospedaria também estará a salvo enquanto ele e os hobbits estiverem lá.
'How long will that be?' said Butterbur. 'I'll not deny we should be glad to have you about for a bit. You see, we're not used to such troubles; and the Rangers have all gone away, folk tell me. I don't think we've rightly understood till now what they did for us. For there's been worse than robbers about. Wolves were howling round the fences last winter. And there's dark shapes in the woods, dreadful things that it makes the blood run cold to think of. It's been very disturbing, if you understand me.'
'I expect it has,' said Gandalf. 'Nearly all lands have been disturbed these days, very disturbed. But cheer up, Barliman! You have been on the edge of very great troubles, and I am only glad to hear that you have not been deeper in. But better times are coming. Maybe, better than any you remember. The Rangers have returned. We came back with them. And there is a king again, Barliman. He will soon be turning his mind this way.
'Then the Greenway will be opened again, and his messengers will come north, and there will be comings and goings, and the evil things will be driven out of the waste-lands. Indeed the waste in time will be waste no longer, and there will be people and fields where once there was wilderness.'
Mr. Butterbur shook his head. 'If there's a few decent respectable folk on the roads, that won't do no harm,' he said. 'But we don't want no more rabble and ruffians. And we don't want no outsiders at Bree, nor near Bree at all. We want to be let alone. I don't want a whole crowd o' strangers camping here and settling there and tearing up the wild country.'
'You will be let alone, Barliman,' said Gandalf. 'There is room enough for realms between Isen and Greyflood, or along the shore lands south of the Brandywine, without any one living within many days' ride of Bree. And many folk used to dwell away north, a hundred miles or more from here, at the far end of the Greenway: on the North Downs or by Lake Evendim.'
-The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 7: "Homeward Bound"