Udul-folk

The Udul-folk were a group of Men who lived in the village of Udul and the surrounding fields that would eventually become a part of the Outlands of western Gondor. They shared kinship with the towns-folk of Agar.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Four: "Tal-Elmar", pg. 433-4
==History==
Sometime after the Awakening of Men, the second host of the Edain passed by the White Mountains,The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Two: Late Writings, chapter X: "Of Dwarves and Men", "The Atani and their Languages" whereupon a large group of them settled down in some fields and hills near the Morthond. These people the ancestors of the Udul-folk and they founded two settlements. One of which was Agar, which was three leagues from Belegaer. The other was Udul, which was located in some fields that were far inland from Agar. For a long time afterwards, there were good relations between the two villages.
Over an extended period of time, the Udul-folk began to slowly drift apart from the towns-folk of Agar and the relations between the two villages lessened over time; it got to such an extent that soon enough, the language of the Udul-folk was almost drastically different from that of the towns-folk of Agar despite them both being the descendants of the same people in the past.
Sometime during the Second Age, a deadly pestilence came to the fields of Udul, devastating the Udul-folk and their lands. This pestilence likely led to a lack of food since the Udul-folk soon resorted to threatening the towns-folk of Agar with marauders out of desperation for food.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth, Part Four: "Tal-Elmar", pg. 438 (note 12) As a consequence of the actions of the Udul-folk marauders, Mogru, the current Master of Agar, sent Tal-Elmar to the fields of Udul to spy on the Udul-folk during the night.
While Tal-Elmar managed to creep close enough to Udul to overhear the voices of men in "one of the huts of watchmen", he was only able to understand their tone as being "mournful and full of fear", never finding out about the true plight of the Udul-folk.
Ultimately, the fate of the Udul-folk and their village is untold.
==References==
Category:Hill-men