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The lands of Men (Atlas of Beleriand - Map 4)
This map shows the settlements of the Men in Beleriand. Men awoke in far East, in Hildórien, when the Sun appeared above Middle-Earth [1]. Three centuries later, men arrived in East Beleriand and they were discovered by the Ñoldor elf Finrod in the Blue Mountains.
The heroes of men (Húrin, Túrin, Beren, etc) come from the Three Houses of the Edain, the noblest men in Beleriand.
The settlement of men in Estolad (leaded by Baran and Marach) involved frictions with the Nandor elfs of Ossiriand and Arthórien [2]. On the Tolkien's map, no river or water appears in Estolad ; however this is a green and fertile country [3].
At the end of the First Age, the Beleriand was drowned, and the Edain was invited to live in the great island of Númenor.
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About the Atlas of Beleriand
This Atlas is a serie of ten maps (and more !)
concerning geography, history and geopolitics of Beleriand, which is a
territory of the famous Legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien,
including the Silmarillion.
This map was firstly created to illustrate an essay (in french) dedicated to explore the geopolitics in Beleriand published on the website
JRRVF (many thanks to Cedric for his support).This map was firstly released on Deviantart.
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Technical details
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Bibliography and references
[2] HoMe XI p112
[3] Silmarillion XVII p131
"But Marach, hearing that the people of Bëor were dwelling in a green and fertile land, came down the Dwarf-road, and settled in the country south ; and east of the dwellings of Baran son of Bëor; and there was great friendship between those peoples."
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