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Dates
Awoke I 1
Location
Across Middle-earth, and the isle of Númenor during the Second Age
Origins
Awoke in Hildórien in the distant east of Middle-earth
Race
Men
Divisions
Broadly divided into the Edain (and their descendants), the Middle Peoples and the people known as Wild Men
Other names
The Afterborn, The Aftercomers, Apanónar, Atani, Big Folk, Big People, The Children of the Sun, Engwar, Fírimar, The Followers, The Heavy-handed, Hildor, The Inscrutable, Men, The Mortals, The Night-fearers, The Second People, The Secondborn, The Self-cursed, The Sickly, The Strangers, The Usurpers

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Younger Children of Ilúvatar

A poetic name for Men

Younger
Children of Ilúvatar
(Men)
Wild Men
Drúedain
Hobbits
Edain
Middle Peoples
Easterlings
Haradrim
Númenóreans
Northmen
Dúnedain
Northmen

The descent of the major branches of the race of Younger Children. Note that, though the Drúedain and Hobbits are established as belonging to branches of the race of Men, and must therefore have descended from the first people to have awoken in Hildórien, the precise details of their descent remain unknown.

The descent of the Northmen was rather more involved than this simple diagram can show. For more on this subject, see the entry for 'Northmen'.

Men, who awoke many thousands of years after the Elder Children, the Elves.


See also...

Afterborn, Awakening of Men, Curse of Mandos, Elder Kindred, Elder People, Elves, Elvish World, Fírimar, Gift of Men, Hildor, Two Kindreds, Unrest of the Noldor, Usurpers

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