Latest comment: 10 July 2024 by Akhorahil in topic Hillmen
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Hillmen
This link is currently found on the article, but the page it leads to refers to Men of Eriador from the Angmar wars. I’d say it either needs to be expanded or the link changed or removed. Aeglos (talk) 04:24, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Feel free to expand it with referenced information.Dour1234 (talk) 07:23, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- If you meant that the user Aeglos should feel free to expand the Hillmen page, then you should not have replied before looking at the relevant passages in the chapters Helm's Deep ("Saruman has armed the wild hillmen and herd-folk of Dunland beyond the rivers", "There the hugest Orcs were mustered and the wild men of the Dunland fells.", "but I looked on the hillmen", "Orcs and hillmen swarmed about its feet"), The Road to Isengard ("But a great many of the hillmen had given themselves up;" [...] "The men of Dunland were amazed;", "But the men of Dunland were set apart in a mound below the Dike."), The Passing of the Grey Company ("The Dunlendings and many men of the garrison") and Minas Tirith ("From Lamedon, a few grim hillmen without a captain.") in The Lord of the Rings. The Hillmen page refers to the "Hillmen" from whom came an evil lord who seized power in Rhudaur, which are only mentioned in section I (iii) Eriador, Arnor and the heirs of Isildur in the paragraph about King Argeleb I of Arthedain. The "hillmen" (not capitalized) from Dunland and the hillmen (not capitalized) from Lamedon seem to be different. Dunland is south of the Glanduin river, which is the southern border of the former elven realm of Eregion. Rhudaur is north of Eregion between the Ettenmoors, the Weather hills and the Misty Mountains and includes the Angle between the rivers Loudwater and Hoarwell. If "a lord of the Hillmen" was secretly in league with Angmar the "Hillmen" were probably not from Angmar itself, but from somewhere in Rhudauer or at least close to Rhudaur. They merely seem to be people that live in the hills of Dunland or in the hills of Lamedon. I already edited the Hillmen page and made corrections to make it clear what are facts and what are only possibilities. I will delete the link to the Hillmen page on the Goblin-men page. --Akhôrahil (talk) 08:51, 10 July 2024 (UTC)