Men of Morenor (Dark Continent), Utter South, Ormal Sea, Far East and Romennor (Lands of the Sun) are not included.
First Age (Mythical era) |
Second Age (Prehistoric era) |
Third Age (Historical era) |
Later Third Age |
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| Edain or Atanatari ("Fathers of Men") |
Folk of Beor (dark, tall and strong) |
Beorians (House of Beor) | Adûnaim (Men of Westernesse) or Númenóreans |
Dúnedain of Arnor | (became Rangers of the North) | ||
| Folk of Haleth (dark, broad, stern) |
Men of Brethil | Dúnedain of Gondor (and Corsairs of Umbar) |
Men of Gondor | ||||
| Folk of Marach (tall and blonde) |
Hadorians (House of Hador) | Adûnaim of Umbar and Bellakar | (merged into lesser men) | ||||
| Adûnaim of Anbalukkhôr (or the "Black Númenóreans") | |||||||
| Adûnaim of the Dominions (the "Black Númenóreans") | |||||||
Lesser Folk of Marach |
Barrow culture in Eriador | Settled Eriadorans (men of Arthedain) | Eriedain | ||||
| Rivermen of Baranduin | |||||||
| Gwathló bargemen | (merged into clansmen of Saralainn) | ||||||
| Greater Folk of Marach (those who stayed in Rhovanion) |
Those who lived along Anduin and allied themselves with the Dwarves of Durin's Folk (Longbeards) |
West Rhovanic peoples | Estaravi (northmen of Angmar and the Grey Mountains) | (merged into Rohirrim) | |||
| Beijabar or Berningas (men of the Misty Mountains) | |||||||
| Rivermen of Anduin | |||||||
| Woodmen of Mirkwood | |||||||
| Ibnotithiuda (People of the Plain) | North Rhovanic peoples | Men of Dale | Lake-men and Bardings | ||||
| East Rhovanic peoples | Gramiska (Plainsmen of Rhovanion) | ||||||
| Ehwathrumi or Eothraim (men of southern Rhovanion) | Rohirrim or the Horse-people | ||||||
| Those who were conquered by Númenóreans | Breelanders (Men of Bree) | ||||||
| Arhûnerim (men who wandered into the west) | Haladin (men of the coastal forests) |
Gwathuirim or Daan Mor (bronze-age inhabitants of Gondor and southern Eriador, who became subject to colonisation, subjugation, and sometimes, genocide, by Númenor.) | Commoners of Cardolan | Clansmen of Saralainn | |||
| Those who resisted and fled | Daen Lintis (dunmen who migrated to wilderlands to preserve their culture) | ||||||
| Daen Coentis (men of the White Mountains) | Mebden of Eryn Vorn | ||||||
| Dunlendings of Dunfearan | |||||||
| Oathbreakers (became Dead Men of Dunharrow) | |||||||
| Danan Lin (settled dunmen who gradually assimilated into Gondor) | Orodbedhrim (slowly return to highlands) | ||||||
| Danan Lin | Men of Gondor | ||||||
| Dunir (migrate to Andrast and Drúwaith Iaur) | |||||||
| Sakalai (coastal people) | |||||||
| Donan (wild men of Ered Lithui and Aegardh) | (died out) | ||||||
| Drûghu (Drúedain) | Beffraen of Eryn Vorn | (died out) | |||||
| Woses of Drúwaith Iaur, Harlindon and Gondor | |||||||
Swarthy Men or the so-called "Easterlings of Beleriand" (Houses of Bór and Ulfang) |
Urnfield culture in Northern Eriador | Angmarim (men of Angmar) | (destroyed in wars) | ||||
| Rhudaurim (men of Rhudaur) | (died out) | ||||||
| Beadmaker culture of Forodwaith | Forodrim (men of the Northern Waste) | ||||||
| Lossoth (hunter-gatherers of the Ice Bay of Forochel) | |||||||
| Talatherim ("People of the Steppes", men of central Middle-earth who domesticated horse) | Those who migrated to west | Copper axe culture in Nûrn | Nûrniags | Men of Mordor | |||
| Ioriag Confederation (Horse-nomads) | Ioriags | Men of Khand | |||||
| Variags | |||||||
| Asdriags | Balchoth (confederation of peoples from central Middle-earth) | ||||||
| Those who never crossed Ered Harmal | Sedentary peoples living east of Ered Harmal | Odhriags | |||||
| Nûriags | Wainrider confederation | ||||||
| Kykurians | |||||||
| Ulgath or Wain-easterlings, bronze technology | Murgath | Logath ("the Refusers") | |||||
| Sagath | |||||||
| Urgath | Brygath (eastern Urgath) | ||||||
| Gathmarig (western Urgath) | Igath | ||||||
| Kugath (intermixed with Marach) | Szrel culture | Dorwinrim or Folyavuldok (Men of Folyavulda) | |||||
| Narnerim (men of the south, neolithic cave-dwellers and herders, who feared the sun and worshipped the moon.) | Haradrim (bronze-skinned and dark-haired peoples of Harad who received grapewine, metalworking and agriculture from Númenóreans; some become Númenórean subjects, others tried to imitate their lords and founded their own states) | Haruzani peoples |
Western Haruze (men of Chelkar, Haruzan, Pesarzan and Lûrmsakun) | ||||
| Eastern Haruze (men of Arysis and Siakan) | Men of Near Harad | ||||||
| Urdwan (nomadic beduins of the Dune Sea) | |||||||
| Bellakaze (men of Bellakar) | |||||||
| Apysani peoples | Tedjin (pastoralists who speak Talatherin language) | (destroyed in wars) | |||||
| Qarsag (nomads of Bellakar) | (merged into other beduins) | ||||||
| Aukuag (nomads of Central Harad) | |||||||
| Bozishnarod (men of Raj) | Men of Far Harad | ||||||
| Sîranians (men of Sîrayn) | |||||||
| Gettaniyan tribesmen (Apysani beduins) | |||||||
| Cultures of Tulwang Bay that were assimilated by Númenóreans | Balkumagânâim (the "Sea Peoples", amalgamation of Númenóreans and Narnerim who live by the sea) | Sorijans (men of the Tulwang bay) | |||||
| Etulians (men of the Tulwang bay) | |||||||
| Adena (men of Khâradûnê) | |||||||
| Sederi (men of Khâradûnê) | |||||||
| Tandê (tribesmen of the Yellow mountains) | |||||||
| Men of Anbalukkhôr | |||||||
| Nandrû (men of Malaiur) | |||||||
| Moredain (black races living in the Utter South, who did not adopt metalworking or agriculture). | Usakani (sedentary tribes of the Savannah) | ||||||
| Tuktani (confederation of jungle-dwellers) | |||||||
| Mûmakanrim (warlike confederation of over 400 ethnic groups) | |||||||
| Kirani (settled people of the Utter South) | |||||||
| Acaanite civilization (emergence of copper alongside stone tools, early agriculture) | Shay culture (uŋ saŋ giga, "the black-headed people") | Mûranians (pastoral people) | (conquered) | Chyan people | |||
| Chaialla (nomadic tribes) | Chey (war chariot culture) | ||||||