The Incomer

At the time of the great battle of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the land of Dor-lómin in southern Hithlum had long been held as a fief by the Edain of the House of Hador. When Morgoth achieved utter victory in that battle, the Lord of Dor-lómin, Húrin Thalion, was taken as captive back to Angband, and his land was given over to the Easterlings who had aided the Dark Lord. Among the surviving Men of Dor-lómin, these Easterling occupiers were known as the Incomers.

Lorgan the Easterling was the new overlord of Hithlum, but a lesser lord, Brodda, was given control of the southern lands of Dor-lómin around the house of Húrin. In the tales of those days he is known as Brodda the Easterling or Brodda the Incomer, and his hall stood near to Húrin's old home. Meanwhile Húrin's wife Morwen remained in that home, but she feared for her young son Túrin, and sent him away to be fostered by Thingol in Doriath.

Brodda the Incomer remained as ruler of Dor-lómin over the following twenty-four years and during this time he took Aerin, a kinswoman of Húrin, to be his wife. Meanwhile Morwen and her daughter Niënor (born after the departure of her brother) dwelt in privation in their old home, until they were finally able to leave and seek out Túrin.

In I 496 Túrin, now a grown Man and a formidable warrior, returned to his homeland and entered the hall of Brodda the Incomer. He had been told that Morwen and Niënor were now thralls of the Incomer, and he came seeking news of his kin. When Brodda revealed the truth, that they had abandoned Dor-lómin, Túrin was taken by a rage, and slew the Incomer in his own hall, a hall later fired by his widow Aerin.

Túrin then departed from his old homeland. Though Brodda had been slain, the land was still held by the Easterlings, and doubtless some other Incomer lord was appointed to take the place of the slain Brodda. If so, no record of this new lord exists, nor indeed does any further account of the brief history of Dor-lómin after Brodda's death.