Middle Men

"Middle Men" was a term used by the Númenóreans to describe Men of Middle-earth related to the Edain, the ancestors of the Númenóreans themselves. The proper term is "Men of Twilight" (as opposed to the Dúnedain, "Men of Light", and the Haradrim and Easterlings, "Men of Darkness" etc.).
==History==
When the Númenóreans returned to the coasts of Middle-earth in the Second Age, they found a people who spoke languages which were distantly related to the Númenórean tongue, Adûnaic. Númenórean scholars declared that this was because these Men were descendants of the fathers of the Edain, the Atanatári, who had not crossed the Ered Luin and entered Beleriand during the First Age. The Númenóreans set up friendly relations with them, and declared them to be Middle Men, as opposed to the High Men (the Edain) and to those hostile to Númenor or in the service of Sauron. After the founding of the Realms in Exile, Arnor and Gondor, many Middle Men became subjects of the Dúnedain, and eventually intermarried with them until they became one people.
The Northmen of Rhovanion, and their discendants such as the Rohirrim, the Men of Dale and Lake-men, were counted as Middle Men, as were most people living in Eriador. Linguistical clues could lead to the conclusion that also the Hobbits and both the Woodmen of Mirkwood and the Beornings, may have descended from the so-called Middle Men, sharing in this way a kinship with the Rohirrim; however, Tolkien never fully explained the relationships between this groups of people. 
King Valacar of Gondor became so friendly with the Middle Men of Rhovanion that he married Vidumavi; a princess of the Northmen, and his son Eldacar was of mixed blood. This led to the disastrous Kin-strife of Gondor.
Most Middle Men had kinship with the House of Bëor or Marach. There were also Men in Middle-earth related to the Second House, the Haladin, but because they spoke a language that was unknown to the Númenóreans they were not at first recognised as Middle Men. Among the descendants of the Haladin were the Drúedain, the Lossoth of Forochel and the so-called Hill-men. In particular, the Hill-men included people like the Men of Bree, the Men of Dunharrow, and the Men of Enedwaith and Minhiriath, later known as the Dunlendings. However, during the Third Age the term Middle Men was still applied to the Men of Bree, with whom the Men of Arnor developed friendly relations, hostility instead developed between the Númenóreans and the Dunlendings, which would endure until the end of the Third Age, when the latter allied with Saruman.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Middelste Mans
Albanian 	Njerëzit e mesëm
Amharic 	መካከለኛ ሰዎች
Arabic 	الرجال الأوسط
Armenian 	Միջին մարդը
Assamese 	মধ্যমীয়া পুৰুষ
Azerbaijani 	Orta kişilər
Basque 	Erdi gizonen
Belarusian Cyrillic	Сярэднія людзі
Bengali 	মধ্যম পুরুষদের
Bosnian 	Srednji ljudi
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Средна мъже
Burmese 	အလယျပိုငျးအမျိုးသားများအတွက်
Cambodian 	ពាក់កណ្តាលបុរស
Croatian 	Srednji ljudi
Czech 	Střední muži
Danish 	Midterste Mænd
Dutch 	Midden Mannen
Esperanto 	Mez-Viroj
Estonian 	Keskmised inimesed
Faroese 	Miđjafólk
Finnish 	Keski Miehet
French 	Milieu Hommes
Georgian 	შუა ხალხი
German 	Mitte Männer
Greek 	Μεσαίοι άνθρωποι
Gujarati 	મધ્યમ લોકો
Hausa 	Tsakiya Maza
Hawaiian 	Waena kanaka
Hebrew 	גברים באמצע
Hindi 	मध्यम मनुष्यों
Hmong 	Nruab nrab Txiv neej
Hungarian 	Közép emberek
Icelandic 	Miðfólk
Indonesian 	Orang tengah
Irish Gaelic 	Fir Lár
Italian 	Uomini Mediani
Japanese 	ミドルメン
Kannada 	ಮಧ್ಯಮ ಜನರು
Kazakh 	Орта адамдар (Cyrillic) Orta adamdar (Latin)
Konkani 	मदले दादले
Korean 	중간 사람들
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Ортоңку адамдар
Latvian 	Vidējie cilvēki
Lithuanian 	Viduriniai žmonės
Luxembourgish 	Mëtt Männer
Macedonian Cyrillic	Средината Мажи
Maltese 	Nofs Irġiel
Malagasy 	Lehilahy Afovoany
Malaysian 	lelaki Tengah
Maori 	Tangata Waenganui
Marathi 	मध्यम लोक
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Ойрхи Эрэгтэй
Nepalese 	मध्य पुरुष
Norwegian 	Midten Menn
Pashto 	د منځني نارينه
Persian 	مردم میانی
Polish 	Środkowi mężczyźni
Portuguese 	Homens do Meio
Punjabi 	ਮੱਧ ਲੋਕ
Romanian 	Medie Oameni
Russian 	Средние люди
Samoan 	Ogatotonu Alii
Scottish Gaelic 	Meadhan Daoine
Serbian 	Средњи људи (Cyrillic) Srednji ljudi (Latin)
Sindhi 	وچين ماڻهو
Sinhalese 	මැද ජනතාව
Slovak 	Stredných mužov
Slovenian 	Srednji moški
Somali 	Dhexe Dadka
Spanish 	Hombres Media
Sundanese 	Lalaki tengah
Swahili 	Watu wa kati
Swedish 	Mitten Män
Tajik Cyrillic 	Мардуми миёна
Tamil 	மத்திய ஆண்கள்
Telugu 	మధ్య ప్రజలు
Thai 	กลางผู้มนุษย์
Turkish 	Orta Erkekler
Turkmen 	Orta Adamlar
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	середній Чоловіки
Urdu 	درمیان کے لوگ
Vietnamese 	Người trung
Welsh 	Canol Dynion
Yiddish 	מיטל מענטשן
Yoruba 	Arin ọkunrin
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