Dale-men

The Dale-men,The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, ch. VIII: "Farewell to Lórien" or Men of Dale, were the Northmen inhabitants of Dale in the Third Age. They came from the area around the Lonely Mountain. 
==History==
The Dale-men descended from the Northmen who had populated Rhovanion throughout the three ages of the Sun. They had dwelled in the valley of Dale since before the year 1856 of the Third Age. In that year, some Northmen who fled from the Battle of the Plains immigrated to Dale since they shared kinship.Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan"
After Thrór reestablished the Kingdom under the Mountain in the year 2590, another group of Northmen immigrated to Dale coming from down the River Running.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B: The Third Age It was in this year that the town of Dale was built,The Hobbit, ch. 1: "An Unexpected Party" growing into a wealthy township from trade with the Dwarves under the sovereignty of noble Lords of Dale.The Hobbit, ch. 14: "Fire and Water"
In TA 2770, Smaug descended upon both Lonely Mountain and Dale probably from somewhere in the Grey Mountains. He attacked and burned much of their town. In the years afterwards, the Dale-men dwindled in number as Smaug would pick them off one by one until the town was completely abandoned.
Over two-hundred years after the destruction of Dale in TA 2941, one particular man named Bard the Bowman shot Smaug through a gap in his scaly armor with his black arrow, thanks to information from a thrush that had contact with Thorin and Company. Subsequently Dale was refounded in TA 2944 as a great city by settlers from Lake-town with Bard as King. Bard and his royal line would go on to rule and unite all the surrounding lands and people between the Celduin and Carnen rivers.
In the War of the Ring In TA 3019, the Men of Dale aided the Dwarves in defending the Lonely Mountain from Easterlings.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B: The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands)
In addition to many of them being competent in Westron, they also spoke their own language, which was distantly related to Rohanese.The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
==Names==
The Dale-men are named after their home town of Dale, which was itself named after the valley it was in. The word is derived from the English word meaning "valley", in turn derived from Proto-Germanic *dalan, with cognates in Old Norse (dalr), Gothic and Dutch (dal), and German (Thal).http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dale&allowed_in_frame=0 Another common name for them towards the end of the Third Age was Bardings, meaning "followers of Bard", -ing being a patronymic suffix and Bard meaning Bard the Bowman, the first restored King of Dale and the slayer of Smaug.
==In adaptations==
===The Hobbit film trilogy===
In Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, the Dale-men (as well as the Lake-men) are directly derived in appearance from medieval Russian influences (such as Kievan Rus and its successor states). For instance, the warriors of Dale, adorned with conical, medieval Russian-style furred helmets and heavily-furred garbs, resemble the knights and warriors of the Rus' states of old.
Further, as presented in the movies, per the complex nature of Russian ethno-cultural history, Dale itself and its people are thereby infused with East Slavic, Finnic, Baltic, Scandinavian, and Turkic influences. In the movies, Peter Jackson clearly defines the culture of Dale and Lake-town as a part of the East.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Manne van Dale
Albanian 	Njerëzit e Dale
Arabic 	رجال من ديل
Armenian 	Տղամարդիկ Դալե
Azerbaijani 	Kişi Dale
Basque 	Dale gizonen
Belarusian Cyrillic	Мужчыны даліна
Bengali 	ডেল এর পুরুষদের
Bosnian 	Ljudi od Dejla
Breton 	Goured a Draoñienn ?
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Мъжете на долина
Cebuano 	Mga tawo sa Dale
Cambodian 	បុរសនៃដលោកដេល
Catalan 	Homes de Dóna-li
Chinese 	谷的男人
Cornish 	Tus a Nans
Croatian 	Ljudi od Dejla
Czech 	Muži z Dol
Danish 	Mænd af Dal
Dutch 	Mannen van Dal
Esperanto 	Viroj de Dale
Estonian 	Dale mehed
Faroese 	Dalur av Dale
Filipino 	Mga lalaking taga Dale
Finnish 	Miehet Laakso
French 	Hommes de Dale
Frisian 	Mannen fen Dale
Galician 	Gomes de Dale
Georgian 	მამაკაცები ძალეი
German 	Männer von Thal
Greek 	Άνδρες της Δαλε
Haitian Creole 	Moun lavil Dale
Hebrew 	אנשי דייל
Hindi 	डेल के पुरुषों
Hungarian 	Férfiak Suhatag
Icelandic 	Menn af Dale
Indonesian 	Orang Dale
Irish Gaelic 	Fir de Dale
Italian 	Uomini di Dale
Javanese 	Wong Dale
Kannada 	ಡೇಲ್ ಮೆನ್
Kazakh Cyrillic 	Дейл ерлер
Korean 	데일의 남자들
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Дейл эркектер
Latin 	Viri Dale
Latvian 	Dale vīri
Lithuanian 	Dale vyrai
Luxembourgish 	Männer vun Dale
Macedonian Cyrillic	Мажите на Дејл
Malagasy 	Lehilahy amin'ny Dale
Malaysian 	Lelaki Dale
Maltese 	Irġiel ta 'Dale
Marathi 	डेल लोक
Nepalese 	डेल को पुरुष
Norwegian 	Menn av Dal
Occitan 	Òmines de Dale
Pashto 	د نارينه دره
Persian 	مردمان دیل
Polish 	Mężczyzn z Dal
Portuguese 	Homens de Vale
Punjabi 	ਡੇਲ ਦੇ ਪੁਰਸ਼
Romanian 	Bărbați din Vale
Russian 	Бардинги
Sanskrit 	डाल मौकुन्द
Scottish Gaelic 	Fir de Dale
Serbian 	Људи оф Долина (Cyrillic) Ljudi od Dolina (Latin)
Sicilian 	Uomini di la Dale
Sinhalese 	ඩේල් මිනිසුන්
Slovak 	Muži Dale
Slovenian 	Možje Dolec
Somali 	Niman yahow reer Dale
Spanish 	Hombres de Valle
Sundanese 	Lalaki ti Dale
Swedish 	Män av Dale
Tajik Cyrillic 	Мардони Дейл
Tamil 	டேல் ஆண்கள்
Telugu 	డేల్ మెన్
Thai 	ผู้ชายของหุบเขา
Turkish 	Dale Erkekleri
Vietnamese 	Đàn ông của Dale
Welsh 	Dynion o Dale
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	чоловіки долина
Uzbek 	Дале Эркаклар (Cyrillic) Dale Erkaklar (Latin)
Yiddish 	מענטשן פון דייל
==References==
Category:Northmen
Category:Men of Dale and Lake-town
es:Hombres de Valle
it:Uomini di Dale
pl:Ludzie z Dale
ru:Люди Дэйла
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