After Arvedui the North-kingdom ended, for the D�nedain were now few and all the people of Eriador diminished. Yet the line of the kings was continued by the Chieftains of the D�nedain, of whom Aranthar son of Arvedui was the first. Arahael his son was fostered in Rivendell, and so were all the sons of the chieftains after him; and there also were kept the heirlooms of their house: the ring of Barahir, the shards of Narsil, the star of Elendil, and the sceptre of Ann�minas [25].

[25] ...The sceptre of Númenor is said to have perished with Ar-Pharazôn. That of Annúminas was the silver rod of the Lords of Andúnië, and is now perhaps the most ancient work of Men's hands preserved in Middle-Earth. It was already more than five thousand years old when Elrond surrended it to Aragorn.

(LoTR, App. A)