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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, Trollshaws, and foothills of the Misty Mountains in northeast Eriador. The Hill-men gained control of the Kingdom of Rhudaur around TA 1300 and allied themselves with the Witch-king of Angmar, who ruled the Men of Carn Dûm, joining his war against the Dúnedain of Arnor. 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 Axemen

Rhudaur Axethrowers, as seen in The Rise of the Witch-king.

Rhudaur Spearmen

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.

Gallery[]

Thrall Master 2
A Thrall Master and his armies of Gundabad Wolf Riders and Rhudaur men ready to attack.
Rhudaur Axemen 2
A Rhudaur Axethrower in The Rise of the Witch-king
Rhudaur Spearmen 2
A Rhudaur Spearman in The Rise of the Witch-king
Hwaldar 2
Hwaldar, the evil chieftain being hosted by the Arnorians, as shown in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king

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[]

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