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The Return Of The King, pp. 407-8. "...Alien, too, or only remotely akin, was the language of the Dunlendings. These were a remnant of the peoples that had dwelt in the vales of the White Mountains in ages past. The Dead Men of Dunharrow were of their kin. But in the Dark Years others had removed to the southern dales of the Misty Mountains; and thence some had passed into the empty lands as far north as the Barrow-downs. From them came the Men of Bree...."

Ibid., p. 321. "These [Lossoth] are a strange, unfriendly people, remnant of the Forodwaith." Where the Forodwaith actually dwelt at the end of the Second Age is a matter of speculation, as Tolkien really tells us nothing of their history. Cf. note 14 below.

The War Of The Jewels, pp. 60-1. "It was after thought that the people of Ulfang were already secretly in the service of Morgoth ere they came to Beleriand. Not so the people of Bor, who were worthy folk and tillers of the earth. Of them, it is said, came the most ancient of the Men that dwelt in the north of Eriador in the Second Age and [? read in] after-days." The connection between the Folk of Bor (and Ulfang) and the northernmost men of Eriador in the Second Age implies that the Lossoth (and, hence, the Forodwaith, of whom the Lossoth were a "remnant") were in fact the descendants of these clans.

The Return Of The King, p. 317. "...Elendil was the High King and dwelt in the North at Annuminas; and the rule in the South was committed to his sons, Isildur and Anarion. They founded there Osgiliath, between Minas Ithil and Minas Anor, not far from the confines of Mordor. For this good at least they believed had come out of ruin, that Sauron also had perished."

The Silmarillion, p. 291. "...The chief city of this southern realm was Osgiliath, through the midst of which the Great River flowed...." In fact, the narrative makes no such connection. But why would Isildur and Anarion build their cities north of Pelargir and Emyn Arnen? That the narrative makes mention of Herumor and Fuinur implies that they were significant in some way to the historians of Gondor.

Ibid., p. 291. "...and to the westward Minas Anor...as a shield against the wild men of the dales...." Tolkien says very little about the constituent "tribes" of this race. The group who broke their vow to Isildur swore their oath at Erech but haunted Dunharrow on the northern side of the mountains. There probably was another tribe in what became Lamedon, one dwelling in the upper vales by the source of the Lefnui, another dwelling near the Adorn, another to the north of the Isen, and another tribe dwelling in Calenardhon itself. Obviously other groups lived north of that region as far as Bree.

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