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unfriendly the Haladin passed north out of Ossiriand into Thargelion.



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The Marachians entered Beleriand last. They were the most numerous tribe of the Edain and the
best organized. Their hereditary chieftain was Marach. He heard (apparently from Elves?) that
B├лor's people had settled across the Gelion in Estolad and he decided to settle there.

From Estolad the B├лorians and Marachians migrated north and west to Dorthonion and the Vale
of Sirion. The Haladin, some fifty or sixty years later, were nearly wiped out by Orcs. One of
their clan leaders, Haldad, gathered all he could find of his people in a stockade where they held
out until Caranthir rescued them. Haleth, Haldad's daughter, led her people to Estolad but soon
after took them to the forest of Brethil, which lay on the western side of Doriath. Her nephew
founded the line of the Wardens of Brethil.

From the year 311 to 455 of the First Age some Edain always lived in Estolad despite the
migrations. These were B├лorians and Marachians. But late in the Fourth Century some of the
B├лorians followed one of their Chieftains south to escape the wars in the north, and some of the
Marachians returned to Eriador. It's quite probable that their chieftains were all descended from
B├лor and Marach, but not from the great leaders of the Fifth Century: Barahir and Hador.

The B├лorians were driven from Dorthonion soon after the Dagor Bragollach, the Battle of
Sudden Flame, which occurred in 455. At that time much of northern and eastern Beleriand was
overrun and the Edain of Estolad fled back to Eriador. The B├лorians of Dorthonion fled to
Hithlum (where the Marachians lived) or to Brethil, and they were absorbed into those peoples
(although the male lines did not die out).

The Marachians were conquered by Melkor after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Unnumbered Tears,
the great battle of 473 in which the Noldor were defeated and two of their greatest kingdoms,
Hithlum and the March of Maedhros, were destroyed. All of the Edain fought under the
leadership of Dor-lomin in that battle, and only a few of the men survived it.

Within 30 years the Haladin were ruined in Brethil, though they survived. Melkor released
Hurin, who wandered through Beleriand in misery. His confrontation with the Warden of Brethil
resulted in the end of the Line of Haldad and the dissolution of the confederation of the Haladin.
Some of them followed Hurin away from Brethil and others tried to continue living as they had.

After the destruction of Doriath a few years later the Edain had no great Elven allies left.
Nargothrond had been destroyed within 25 years after the Nirnaeth and Gondolin had never
really been associated with the Edain (but it was destroyed soon after Doriath anyway).

Some of the Edain escaped from thralldom and settled in Arvernien, the last Elven realm to be
established in Beleriand. This land was ruled by ├Лarendil and Elwing, the Half elves in whose
children the lines of the great lords of Beleriand survived. When the F├лanorians destroyed
Arvernien the Edain seem to have been dispersed, or left in thralldom in places like Dor-lomin.