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The Woodmen of northeastern Mirkwood

The latter two groups of Northmen may all or in part have been absorbed into the Kingdom of
Dale. The fact that Dale's borders extended to the Carnen within 60 years of the kingdom's
restoration in 2944 implies there must have been Northmen living along that river, which makes
sense because there was a Dwarven community in Emyn Engrin (the Iron Hills).




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The Gwathuirim
This essay was originally titled "The Men of Ered Nimrais". Many questions have been
answered with the publication of THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH. We now know, for
instance, that these tribes were related to the Haladin of Beleriand, and therefore should have
been given a place among the Edain of Eriador. But I have refrained from revising that essay so
extensively because the Gwathuirim present an interesting study in their own right. Because of
the significant information provided in PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH, portions of this essay
have been quite extensively revised.

Tolkien does not enumerate the various "tribes" of the Gwathuirim for us, but we can still
distinguish among them by region. The easternmost group were the Haladin. The northernmost
group were the Men of Bree. The Men of Minhiriath appear to have been a somewhat different
group but closely related to the Men of Bree. The Gwathuirim of Enedwaith retreated eastward
and became the Dunlendings, but some of their clans appear to have migrated into Calenardhon
and south along the Isen and Adorn. The Men of Dunharrow were another branch, and at least
one group settled in the lands south of Ered Nimrais.

The Gwathuirim of the middle lands were the tribes who fought with the Numenoreans in the
Second Age, and they appear not to have been fully conquered or absorbed into the Dunadan
realms until the days of Tarannon Falastur, who may have subdued all of the Gwathuirim south
of Gwathlo. But these clans were never fully conquered and in the days of the Stewards they
regained their freedom and troubled both Gondor and Rohan.

The Dunlendings
We meet the Dunlendings in THE TWO TOWERS when they attack Rohan under Saruman's
command. There are two groups of them although most people seem to miss that distinction, The
"lowland" group are pretty much shepherds, but the "highland" group are referred to as the "wild
men of the hills". These are the Men with whom Gimli is reluctant to fight at the Battle of the
Hornburg. He was not afraid of them, but probably knew them as a people who had been friendly
to his family. He said they were too tall for him, and this was probably also true, but I suspect
Gimli would have held his own in a battle with them.

There were other "Dunlendings" living along the Isen and Adorn rivers. These were clans who
had intermarried with some of the western Rohirrim. According to UNFINISHED TALES some
of the Dunlendings had inhabited Isengard for a time. What appears to have happened is that the
Rohirrim drove a tribe related to the Dunlendings from the northern vales of the Ered Nimrais.