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great landslide used to trap Ar-Pharaz├┤n's army.

Ingw├л was King of the Vanyar and he is said to have lived on Taniquetil at the feet of Manw├л. In
early legends his son Ingwiel is said to have led the army of the Vanyar in the War of Wrath. In
war the Vanyar marched under white banners.


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 Essays On Middle-earth


Chapter 4:
The Men of Arda
The Edainic Peoples
Tolkien writes of the Edain that they "were three peoples of Men who, coming to the West of
Middle-earth and the shores of the Great Sea, became allies of the Eldar against the Enemy."

In fact, most of the Edain never even saw the Sea, but that is beside the point. The Edain are in
some places called the "Fathers of Men" and the "Elf-friends". There was a fourth kindred of the
Edain, alluded to even in THE LORD OF THE RINGS, called the Druedain. But they were
almost wholly alien to the other tribes and never intermarried with them.

The Edain had fled Hildorien centuries before they reached the Elven lands in Beleriand. They
were among the first Men to rebel against Melkor and proved to be the most faithful of Elvish
allies among Men.

In the eastern lands the Edain had been befriended by Avari and Nandor, of whom they
borrowed some linguistic elements and learned to play crude instruments (harps and flutes,
probably). It was the Elves who told the Edain of the "Light" which was in the West, and fleeing
the Darkness of Melkor they set their feet upon the fateful path that brought them into the Wars
of Beleriand.

The Edain had also dealt with the Dwarves in the lands east of Beleriand. Such intercourse as
they had with the Dwarves appears to have been uneven and not always friendly.

The Edain of Beleriand
The Edain entered Beleriand in three groups.

First came the B├лorians, a loose-knit confederation of clans who lived a nomadic life. Their
chieftain was Balan, later named B├лor because of his devoted service to Finrod Felagund. The
B├лorians were probably the most gentle and "Elf-like" Edain. They stopped in Ossiriand but the
Laegrim (Green-Elves) asked Finrod to lead them away since they were hunters and lumberers.
He settled the B├лorians in the region later named Estolad (Encampment) in the March of
Maedhros.

Next came the Haladin. These people were also a loose-knit group of clans and apparently had
few or no real leaders. They brought with them the Druedain, who were a few clans of Men
drawn from the earliest inhabitants of the Ered Nimrais. The Haladin spoke a different language
from the other Edain but had dealings with them and were apparently allies of some sort even
before they entered Beleriand in the wake of B├лor's people. Because the Laegrim were