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These must have been men who never fully submitted to Gondor's rule, since Cirion was not
concerned about giving their homeland away.

So then the mountain tribe was driven west and absorbed into the groups living in Dunland and
beyond the Adorn. The Dunland tribes expanded east to Isengard in their efforts to drive out the
Rohirrim, but the Adorn tribe(s) mingled with the Rohirrim, and it was through this mixed group
that Freca's son Wulf (who had Dunlending blood) was able to recruit an army among the
Dunlendings and seize control of Rohan in 2758 (the year the Long Winter began).


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The Dunlendings never wielded any great power, but rather served as mercenaries in the wars
against Rohan and Gondor. They must have been divided into clans and tribes that simply
couldn't form a great kingdom. It is significant that some of Durin's folk settled in Dunland. They
would not have done so if there hadn't been sufficient trade to support them.

The Men of Bree
These were the northernmost group of Men to come from the Gwathuirim. They apparently were
descended of a tribe who settled in Tyrn Gorthad (later known as the Barrow Downs), probably
after the War of the Elves and Sauron. The Breelanders were absorbed into the Kingdom of
Arnor and they prospered for a long time under the rule of the Dunedain.

The Bree-land itself, at the end of the Third Age, consisted of four villages: Bree, Archet,
Coombe, and Staddle. There were probably other villages which had existed south of that area in
more ancient times, but they would have been destroyed or abandoned in the Seventeenth
Century when the Great Plague wiped out most of the people of Cardolan.

The Bree-landers were unique among their kindred for having formed a close relationship with
hobbits. Hobbits had at one time lived in Dunland but they apparently did not find the region to
be as safe and hospitable as the Bree-land was. The hobbits of Bree lived there for more than
1700 years in the Third Age.

The Men of Dunharrow
One of the two traditions of the founding of Edhellond says that a group of Sindarin Elves settled
along the Ringlo and the Men of that region, primitive fisherfolk, fled north to the Ered Nimrais.
One of the traditions concerning the origins of the Druedain says they were driven from the Ered
Nimrais by tall men from the east.

It seems evident that Tolkien envisioned the Gwathuirim as having split into multiple groups
early in their history, much as the Marachians were divided into many groups. Thus, some of the
Gwathuirim settled in Ered Nimrais and passed south to the coast lands. Whether the fisher-folk
chased off by the Elves were thus intended to be Gwathuirim is not a question we can easily
answer. The connection between the Men of Dunharrow and the Gwathuirim is undeniable, and
therefore they came of a more ancient migratory people, sharing kinship with the Second House
of the Edain, the Haladin of Brethil.