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apparently settled in the lands between the Carnen and Celduin rivers. After re-establishing contact with the Beorians, some of the Marachians continued to migrate west. Most of the Beorians followed them. In Eriador the Beorians overtook the Marachians and settled throughout the wide lands. The majority of the Marachians continued the westward journey, accompanied by a small part of the Beorians. Under their leaders Beor and Marach, only a smal portion of either people actually entered Beleriand. The rest stayed back east in Eriador and throughout Wilderland. The Edain of Wilderland eventually formed an alliance with the Longbeard Dwarves, Durin's Folk. This alliance, formed early in the Second Age to help drive off the Orcs and other creatures which fled the destruction of Angband into eastern lands, flourished for more than a thousand years until the War of the Elves and Sauron. In that war the Edainic peoples were nearly destroyed, and only a few small enclaves survived in Wilderland either in Greenwood the Great (later named Mirkwood) or in the mountains. Those men who fled to the mountains appear to be the ancestors of the Beornings and the eastern northmen. The eastern group settled near the northern areas of Greenwood, and early in the Third Age they began migrating south along the edge of the Forest. It was from these men that the peoples of Dale, Laketown, and the kingdom of Rhovanion were descended. It seems from The Hobbit that Bard's western recruits may have come from communities of woodmen living north of Thranduil's realm. There is no indication that men stopped living in the northeastern forest. The Beornings and Woodmen, however, are not necessarily a "pure" people. In "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields" (published in Unfinished Tales), the lone survivor of Isildur's company was helped by woodmen living in the western eaves of Greenwood, near Amon Lanc (later Dol Guldur). These woodmen appear to have been some of those Edainic peoples who fled in the Forest during the War of the Elves and Sauron. In "Cirion and Eorl" (also published in Unfinished Tales) Tolkien relates the later part of the history of the Kingdom of Rhovanion. This kingdom, situated to the east of southern Mirkwood, was destroyed by the Wainriders in the 1800s of the Third Age. The army of Rhovanion was destroyed, but some of its cavalry escaped and fled to the Vales of Anduin. They were later joined by outlaws coming through

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