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The Afterborn, Apanónar, Atani, Big Folk, Big People, The Children of the Sun, Engwar, Fírimar, The Followers, The Heavy-handed, Hildor, The Inscrutable, The Mortals, The Night-fearers, The Second People, The Self-cursed, The Sickly, The Strangers, The Usurpers, The Younger Children of Ilúvatar
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The descent of the major branches of the race of Men and related peoples. 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 as rather more involved than this simple diagram can show. For more on this subject, see the entry for 'Northmen'.
The youngest of the races of Arda (with the possible exception of Hobbits), the first Men awoke in the far eastern land of Hildórien as the Sun first rose and the Noldor returned from Valinor. Seeing the sunrise, many of the first Men set out westwards, and so came eventually to Beleriand after some three hundred years of wandering.
Men are unique in possessing the Gift of Men, Death, by which they leave the world after an allotted time and go beyond it.
See also...
Adanedhel, Afterborn, Aftercomers, Ainur, Alfirin, Almaren, Amlach, Amon Rûdh, Angmar, Apanónar, Aradan, Arador, Aragorn Elessar, Archet, Arda, [See the full list...]Arveleg I, Atanatári, Atani, Aulë, Awakening of Men, Azanulbizar, Balan, Ban of the Valar, Barahir, Barahir, Barazinbar, Bardings, Barrow-downs, Barrows, Battle of Five Armies, Battle of Fornost, Bëor, Beorn, Beornings, Bereg, Big Folk, Big People, Bill Ferny, Black Serpent, Bladorthin, Bór, Boromir, Bree, Bree-folk, Bree-hobbits, Bree-landers, Bree-men, Bundushathûr, Bywater Road, Cair Andros, Calendar of Imladris, Chieftain of the Dúnedain, Children of Aulë, Children of Eru, Children of Ilúvatar, Children of the Sun, Circles of the World, Cram, Crossings of Erui, Curunír, Dale, Dark Lord, Dark Years, Dead Men, Dírhavel, Doom of Men, Dor Firn-i-Guinar, Dorlas, Dor-lómin, Downfall of Barad-dûr, Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin, Dragons, Drû, Drúedain, Drûg-folk, Drughu, Drûgs, Drúin, Duilin, Dwarves, Dwarves of Belegost, Eagles, Eärendil, Easterlings, Eastlands of Middle-earth, Ecthelion II, Edain, Edhellond, Ekkaia, Elder Children of Ilúvatar, Elder Kindred, Elf-children, Elf-friends, Elf-Man, Elladan, Elros, Elven-rings, Elves, Engwar, Entish, Envinyatar, Eruhíni, Estelmo, Estolad, Evermind, Falathrim, Fall of Barad-dûr, Fathers of Men, Felaróf, Fiery Mountain, Fírimar, First Age, First House of the Edain, Firstborn, Followers, Forn, Forweg, Freca, Free Peoples, Friend-of-Men, Gate of Erebor, Gaurwaith, Gift of Men, Girithron, Gladden River, Goatleaf Family, Goblin-men, Golasgil, Gondolin, Gondor, Great Rings, Guard of the Tower of Gondor, Halethrim, Half-elven, Half-elven, Halflings, Half-orcs, Halls of Mandos, Halls of Waiting, Hathol, Haudh-en-Arwen, Havens of Sirion, Heart of the Mountain, Heathertoes Family, Heavy-handed, Henderch, Heren Istarion, High King, Hildor, Hildórien, Hill-men, Hill-trolls, Hirluin the Fair, Hobbits, Hollin, Hopafoot, Horses, House of Fingolfin, Hunthor, Huor, Húrin of Emyn Arnen, Hyarmendacil I, Icebay of Forochel, Imlach, Imladris, Ingold, Inscrutable, Iorlas, Kibil-nâla, King of Gondor, King of Númenor, King of the Dead, Kirinki, Kûd-dûkan, Land of Bow and Helm, Lay of Eärendil, Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad-dûr, Little Folk, Little People, Lockholes, Lone-lands, Long-worms, Lord of Andúnië, Lord of the Nazgûl, Lorgan, Magor, Malbeth the Seer, Mallor, Man-high, Mannish, Master of Lake-town, Masters of Spirits, Mat Heathertoes, Mearas, Men of Arnor, Men of Bree, Men of Dale, Men of Darkness, Men of Dor-lómin, Men of Dorthonion, Men of Dunland, Men of Eriador, Men of Gondor, Men of Harad, Men of Hithlum, Men of Middle-earth, Men of Minas Tirith, Men of the North (in the First Age), Men of the North (in the Third Age), Men of the Vales of Anduin, Morgoth, Morgul-king, Mortals, Mountain of Fire, Mouth of Sauron, Muster of Rohan, Narmacil I, Nazgûl Lord, Near Harad, Nen Hithoel, Nibin-Nogrim, Night-fearers, Nine Rings, Nine Ringwraiths, Nine Servants, Nîn-in-Eilph, Nómin, Northern Men, Northmen, Northmen of Rhovanion, Oghor-hai, Olog-hai, Onodrim, Onya, Orald, Orcs of Mordor, Order of Wizards, Orleg, Outer Sea, Paths of the Dead, People of Bëor, People of Hador, Peredhil, Pinnacle of Orthanc, Ragnor, Ranga, Reunited Kingdom, Rhûn, Rings of Power, Ringwraiths, River Celduin, River Entwash, River Hoarwell, River Limlaith, River Lune, River Redwater, River Silverlode, River Thalos, Rógin, Rómendacil II, Rowlie Appledore, Rú, Rúatani, Runes of Doriath, Sandastan, Sauron, Second Age, Second People, Seeing-stones, Self-cursed, Shadow-men, Sharkey’s Men, Sharkû, Sickly, Siege of Gondor, Sîr Ninglor, Skin-changers, Snowmen of Forochel, Starwards, Stone of Osgiliath, Strangers, Sun, Swertings, Tarkil, Tarks, Tawar-in-Drúedain, Thangail, Tharbad, The Blessed, The Dead, The Hunter, The Mariner, The Moon, The Old, The Ring, The Seven Stars, The White Mountain, Third Age, Third House of the Edain, Three Houses of the Edain, Three Houses of the Elf-friends, Tindrock Isle, Tom Bombadil, Túrin I, Two Kindreds, Tyrn Gorthad, Uilos, Ulmo, Undying Lands, Unnumbered Tears, Urthel, Usurpers, Valacar, Valar, Vales of Anduin, Wain, War of the Jewels, War of the Last Alliance, War of the Ring, Weather Hills, Weathertop, Were-worms, Westron, Whiteskins, Wild Men, Wild Men of the Woods, Wildman of the Woods, Woodmen, Wraiths, Year of Lamentation, Years of the Trees, Younger Children of Ilúvatar, Yrch
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