Hill-men were a race of Men who lived in small tribes disparately across northern Middle-earth in the Third Age.
History[]
First Age[]
The Hill-men were a group of indigenous Men of the West-lands, descended from the second host of the Edain that reached the White Mountains along with the Drúedain. Thus, they were close relatives of the House of Haleth that lived in Beleriand. These Men were scattered communities of forest-dwellers without central leadership and they spread in Eriador (Bree-land, Enedwaith and Minhiriath), where they lived alongside some descendants of the House of Marach, and Gondor.[1]
Second Age[]
After the War of Wrath, some of the surviving Easterlings of Beleriand fled to the hills of Rhudaur and the mountains of Angmar. These Men terrorized and ruled the people among whom they settled. The languages of the people who inhabited Eriador and Gondor during this period are collectively called "Pre-Númenórean", because they were spoken there before the Númenóreans arrived with their language from across the Sea. Among these people were also the towns-folk of Agar and the Udul-folk.[2] When the Númenóreans colonized the shores of Middle-earth they didn't recognize their kinship with the Hill-men because they didn't speak Taliskan languages. Thus, some of the Hill-men where recruited by Sauron during his war against the Free Folk of Middle-earth. However, not all the Pre-Númenóreans were hostile to the Dúnedain; in fact, the two races of Men mingled when the Realms in Exile were established after the Akallabêth.[3]
Third Age[]
During the Third Age, tribes of Hill-men were located in the Ettenmoors, the Trollshaws, and in the western foothills of the Misty Mountains in northeast Eriador. Around the year 1300, an evil lord of the Hill-men allied themselves with the Witch-king of Angmar, who ruled the Men of Carn Dûm, and gained control of Rhudaur. Rhudaur was annexed to Angmar in TA 1409 and the Hill-men were presumably wiped out at the end of the war with Angmar. The regions where they had lived were uninhabited by the end of the Third Age.
Tribes[]
In adaptations[]
The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king[]
Rhudaur Axethrowers, as seen in The Rise of the Witch-king.
Rhudaur Spearmen led by a Thrall Master in The Rise of the Witch-king.
In EA's video game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king, the Men of Rhudaur are corrupted Hill-men who ended up serving Angmar and the Witch-king. Their warriors were Rhudaur Spearmen (who bear sharp spears), Rhudaur Axemen (who throw sharp axes), and Thrall Masters (who in gameplay can summon them, Gundabad Orcs, or Wolf Riders). Hwaldar the Chieftain of Rhudaur was their leader, and was disloyal to Arnor's royalty. He was defeated by the Men of Arnor once becoming hostile, but Angmar came to free him, as Morgomir, the Witch-king's second, recognized a valuable ally to control the forces of Men of Rhudaur. Angmar then destroyed two camps of Arnor and of the Dúnedain. King Argeleb I and his army were all slain, and Rhudaur was now of Angmar's dominion.
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Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Afrikaans | Heuwel mense |
| Albanian | Njerëz të kodrave |
| Amharic | ኮረብታ ህዝብ |
| Arabic | سكان التلال |
| Armenian | Բլուր-Ժողովուրդը |
| Azerbaijani | Təpə Adamları |
| Basque | Muino-herri |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Узгорак-народ |
| Bengali | পাহাড় সম্প্রদায় |
| Bosnian | Brdo-narod |
| Bulgarian Cyrillic | Хълм-народ |
| Cambodian | ប្រជាជននៅលើភ្នំ |
| Catalan | Gent dels turons |
| Chinese | 丘 人民 |
| Croatian | Brdo-narod |
| Czech | Vrchovci |
| Danish | Bakke folk |
| Dutch | Heuvelvolk |
| Esperanto | Popolo de la montetoj |
| Estonian | Küngas-rahvas |
| Finnish | Vuorilaiset |
| French | Gens du collines |
| Friulian | Omis des Colinis |
| Galician | Pobo dos outeiros |
| Georgian | ბორცვი ხალხი |
| German | Bergmenschen |
| Greek | Οι άνθρωποι των λόφων |
| Hebrew | אנשי הגבעות |
| Hindi | पहाड़ी लोग |
| Hungarian | Domb-emberek |
| Icelandic | Hóllfólk |
| Indonesian | Bukit-rakyat |
| Irish Gaelic | Daoine Sléibhe |
| Italian | Uomini delle Colline |
| Japanese | 丘 人民 |
| Javanese | Paredèn-wong |
| Kannada | ಬೆಟ್ಟ ಜನರು |
| Kazakh | Төбе халық (Cyrillic) Töbe xalıq (Latin) |
| Korean | 언덕인 |
| Kyrgyz Cyrillic | Дөбө-эл |
| Laotian | ປະຊາຊົນເຂດພູ |
| Latvian | Paugurs-tauta |
| Lithuanian | Kalva-žmonės |
| Luxembourgish | Hiwwelleit |
| Macedonian Cyrillic | Брдо-луѓе |
| Malaysian | Bukit-orang |
| Marathi | टेकडी लोक |
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Гүвээ-ард түмэн |
| Nepalese | पहाड मानिसहरु |
| Norwegian | Ås folk |
| Occitan | Gents del colinas |
| Pashto | غونډۍ خلگ |
| Persian | تپه مردم |
| Polish | Wzgórze-lud |
| Portuguese | Povo do colinas |
| Punjabi | ਪਹਾੜੀ ਲੋਕ |
| Romanian | Oamenii dealurilor |
| Russian | Люди Холмов |
| Sardinian | Òmines de sos Collinas |
| Serbian | Брдо-народ (Cyrillic) Brdo-narod (Latin) |
| Sicilian | Uomini di li Cullini |
| Sinhalese | කන්ද මහජන |
| Slovak | Kopec-ľudia |
| Slovenian | Grič-narod |
| Spanish | Gente del colinas |
| Swahili | Kilima watu |
| Swedish | Kulle folk |
| Tajik Cyrillic | одамони теппа |
| Tamil | குன்று மக்கள் |
| Telugu | కొండ ప్రజలు |
| Thai | ประชาชนเนินเขา |
| Turkish | Tepe Adamları |
| Turkmen | Depe Erkekleri |
| Ukrainian Cyrillic | Пагорб-народ |
| Urdu | پہاڑی لوگ |
| Uzbek | Адирлар-халқ (Cyrillic) Adirlar-xalq (Latin) |
| Venetian | Uomini de le Colline |
| Vietnamese | Đồi-nhân dân |
| Welsh | Pobl Bryn |
| Yiddish | בערגל פאלק |
References[]
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth, chapter X: "Of Dwarves and Men"
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth, chapter XVII: "Tal-Elmar"
- ↑ The Silmarillion, Akallabêth