NOTE: I have since come to think these people may have been incorporated into the Beornings.īesides the Dunlendings and the Men of Bree, there were three other Mannish peoples living in Eriador or its adjoining lands at the time of the War of the Ring. The best I can estimate, these people lived south of the Beornings and north of Loeg Ningloron (The Gladden Fields). In The Hobbit, when Gandalf, Bilbo, and the Dwarves are caught up in the trees by the Orcs and Wargs, Tolkien explains that Men had been migrating north along the Great River and they were encroaching on the lands normally controlled by the Orcs. NOTE: The long-house in which Beorn dwelt was based on a common design used by Germanic, Celtic, and neighboring peoples throughout northern and central Europe for several thousand years. The kinds of houses they would have used are described briefly in Unfinished Tales, and I believe Christopher Tolkien mentions somewhere that Beorn’s house was modelled along the same characteristics. Those lands were inhabited at the time of The Lord of the Rings. The people on the south side of the River were Rohirrim, but there was a lot of mixed blood in that area. North of the river lived the Dunlendings, who were related to many of the peoples of Gondor as well as the Men of Bree. This was the river which ran west from the White Mountains to the sea. In the histories of the Kings of Rohan, it is mentioned that Wulf’s father Freca, whom Helm Hammerfist slew with a single blow of his fist, controlled many lands on the north and south side of the River Adorn. They pastured their horses on the plains, but the peoples of the Eastfold were evacuated prior to the War of the Ring because of Orcish raids. There are two or three passages which say the Rohirrim lived in the (valleys of the) White Mountains (Ered Nimrais) and their foothills. More than a thousand men rode with Theoden from Edoras to reinforce the Hornburg. NOTE: My estimate of 1,000 houses was based on the incorrect memory of a passage in “The King of the Golden Hall”. There were about 1000 houses in Edoras and farms in the valley behind (Harrowdale?). His settlement resembles some Scandinavian plans, particularly the Danish military communities. He had a hall, which was quite different architecturally. I remember Theoden’s castle, but not much about any towns or villages. Some men live in Bree and some in Gondor.
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The hobbits live in the Shire and Bree so that’s alright. Only after the fall of Sauron would they be able to replenish themselves. Still, one of the recurrent themes in LOTR is that the peoples of the west, having been battered at for centuries, are dwindling. There is actually a lot of information in LOTR about where people lived, but you really have to dig for it to find it. are mentioned in LotR, but very few villages or towns. Some corrections have been made to the text, or inserted as notes. In September 1995, John Blackburn asked a simple question: “Where does everyone live (in Middle-earth)?” What follows is reply to his question.