- Cities and buildings
- Fields, plains and deserts
- Forests
- Hills and mountains
- Islands and promontories
- Lands, realms and regions
- Rivers and lakes
- Seas and oceans
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Dates
Awoke I 1
Location
Originated in Hildórien, but spread throughout Middle-earth
Origins
Race
Divisions
Broadly divided into the Edain (and their descendants), the Middle Peoples and the people known as Wild Men
Meaning
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, Men, The Mortals, The Night-fearers, The Second People, The Secondborn, The Self-cursed, The Sickly, The Strangers, The Usurpers, The Younger Children of Ilúvatar
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One of the many names among the Elves for the race of Men. Its meaning is never explicitly explored, but it seems clear that the Eldar found it difficult in some sense to understand the motivations or modes of thought of the Mortal Second People. The choice of the name may seem curious, given that the High Elves, at least, had some capacity to read the minds of Men.1 Even with such a facility, however, it seems that there was much about Men that the Elves found impenetrable. Notes
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