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migrated south along the eastern eaves of Greenwood at the end of the Second Age and in the
early years of the Third Age. The Woodmen of southern Greenwood who attempted to aid Isildur
when his company was attacked near the Gladden Fields were another remnant of the old
Edainic peoples.




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The eastern Edain seem to have been the most numerous groups. They settled in northern
Greenwood, the lands around Erebor, and southward along the Celduin, probably spreading east
in this time as far as the Carnen. According to Appendix A in THE LORD OF THE RINGS
these Northmen had many princes by the time they came into contact with Gondor. The greater
communities appear to have settled south of the Celduin, and the Kingdom of Rhovanion was the
greatest of these lands.

The Kingdom of Rhovanion was the land where Vidugavia ruled, and his daughter Vidumavi
married Valacar, the son of Minalcar, who established close ties with the Northmen. Rhovanion
lay between Mirkwood (formerly Greenwood the Great) and Celduin, south of the area where the
river touched the forest.

Another group of Northmen settled in the plains south of Rhovanion. These were colonists
recruited by Gondor to be a buffer region against the Easterlings, but they were not faithful to
Gondor and sometimes helped raid the western lands.

In time the Northmen of Rhovanion and the plains were destroyed, but a remnant of them fled to
the Vales of Anduin and these became the ├Лoth├лod. Other Northmen survived in the lands
between Celduin and Carnen and they were the Men of Dale, who apparently built a great
kingdom between the two rivers which lasted until Smaug destroyed Erebor and the city of Dale.

The ├Лoth├лod migrated to the far northern dales where they lived for about 500 years. In that time
they quarreled with the Dwarves but prospered until they became too numerous for their lands.
They rode to Gondor's aid against the Balchoth and were rewarded with the region of
Calenardhon that lay between Hithaeglir and Ered Nimrais, and in that land the ├Лoth├лod became
known as the Rohirrim.

There were also groups of Northmen who migrated to Gondor on several occasions, and these
became absorbed into the peoples of the Southern Kingdom so that by the end of the Third Age
there was no apparent trace of their ancestry left in Gondor's common folk.

Tolkien mentioned the following groups of Northmen who were still identifiable at the end of the
Third Age:

The Rohirrim
The Beornings
The Woodmen of central western Mirkwood
The Men of Dale and Esgaroth
The Men living along Celduin, south of Esgaroth