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Dale-men, when the dragon came

The Dale-men,[1] or the Men of Dale, were the Northmen inhabitants of Dale in the Third Age. They came from the area around the Lonely Mountain.

History[]

The Dale-men descended from the Northmen who had populated Rhovanion throughout the three ages of the Sun. They had dwelled in the valley of Dale since before the year 1856 of the Third Age. In that year, some Northmen who fled from the Battle of the Plains immigrated to Dale since they shared kinship.[2]

After Thrór reestablished the Kingdom under the Mountain in the year 2590, another group of Northmen immigrated to Dale coming from down the River Running.[3] It was in this year that the town of Dale was built,[4] growing into a wealthy township from trade with the Dwarves under the sovereignty of noble Lords of Dale.[5]

In TA 2770, Smaug descended upon both Lonely Mountain and Dale probably from somewhere in the Grey Mountains[4].[3] He attacked and burned much of their town. In the years afterwards, the Dale-men dwindled in number as Smaug would pick them off one by one until the town was completely abandoned.[4]

Over two-hundred years after the destruction of Dale in TA 2941, one particular man named Bard the Bowman shot Smaug through a gap in his scaly armor with his black arrow, thanks to information from a thrush that had contact with Thorin and Company.[5] Subsequently Dale was refounded in TA 2944 as a great city by settlers from Lake-town with Bard as King. Bard and his royal line would go on to rule and unite all the surrounding lands and people between the Celduin and Carnen rivers.[3]

In the War of the Ring In TA 3019, the Men of Dale aided the Dwarves in defending the Lonely Mountain from Easterlings.[6]

In addition to many of them being competent in Westron, they also spoke their own language, which was distantly related to Rohanese.[7]

Names[]

The Dale-men are named after their home town of Dale, which was itself named after the valley it was in. The word is derived from the English word meaning "valley", in turn derived from Proto-Germanic *dalan, with cognates in Old Norse (dalr), Gothic and Dutch (dal), and German (Thal).[8] Another common name for them towards the end of the Third Age was Bardings, meaning "followers of Bard", -ing being a patronymic suffix and Bard meaning Bard the Bowman, the first restored King of Dale and the slayer of Smaug.[7]

In adaptations[]

The Hobbit film trilogy[]

In Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, the Dale-men (as well as the Lake-men) are directly derived in appearance from medieval Russian influences (such as Kievan Rus and its successor states). For instance, the warriors of Dale, adorned with conical, medieval Russian-style furred helmets and heavily-furred garbs, resemble the knights and warriors of the Rus' states of old.

Further, as presented in the movies, per the complex nature of Russian ethno-cultural history, Dale itself and its people are thereby infused with East Slavic, Finnic, Baltic, Scandinavian, and Turkic influences. In the movies, Peter Jackson clearly defines the culture of Dale and Lake-town as a part of the East.

Translations[]

Foreign Language Translated name
Afrikaans Manne van Dale
Albanian Njerëzit e Dale
Arabic رجال من ديل
Armenian Տղամարդիկ Դալե
Azerbaijani Kişi Dale
Basque Dale gizonen
Belarusian Cyrillic Мужчыны даліна
Bengali ডেল এর পুরুষদের
Bosnian Ljudi od Dejla
Breton Goured a Draoñienn ?
Bulgarian Cyrillic Мъжете на долина
Cebuano Mga tawo sa Dale
Cambodian បុរសនៃដលោកដេល
Catalan Homes de Dóna-li
Chinese 谷的男人
Cornish Tus a Nans
Croatian Ljudi od Dejla
Czech Muži z Dol
Danish Mænd af Dal
Dutch Mannen van Dal
Esperanto Viroj de Dale
Estonian Dale mehed
Faroese Dalur av Dale
Filipino Mga lalaking taga Dale
Finnish Miehet Laakso
French Hommes de Dale
Frisian Mannen fen Dale
Galician Gomes de Dale
Georgian მამაკაცები ძალეი
German Männer von Thal
Greek Άνδρες της Δαλε
Haitian Creole Moun lavil Dale
Hebrew אנשי דייל
Hindi डेल के पुरुषों
Hungarian Férfiak Suhatag
Icelandic Menn af Dale
Indonesian Orang Dale
Irish Gaelic Fir de Dale
Italian Uomini di Dale
Javanese Wong Dale
Kannada ಡೇಲ್ ಮೆನ್
Kazakh Cyrillic Дейл ерлер
Korean 데일의 남자들
Kyrgyz Cyrillic Дейл эркектер
Latin Viri Dale
Latvian Dale vīri
Lithuanian Dale vyrai
Luxembourgish Männer vun Dale
Macedonian Cyrillic Мажите на Дејл
Malagasy Lehilahy amin'ny Dale
Malaysian Lelaki Dale
Maltese Irġiel ta 'Dale
Marathi डेल लोक
Nepalese डेल को पुरुष
Norwegian Menn av Dal
Pashto د نارينه دره
Persian مردمان دیل
Polish Mężczyzn z Dal
Portuguese Homens de Vale
Punjabi ਡੇਲ ਦੇ ਪੁਰਸ਼
Romanian Bărbați din Vale
Russian Бардинги
Sanskrit डाल मौकुन्द
Scottish Gaelic Fir de Dale
Serbian Људи оф Долина (Cyrillic) Ljudi od Dolina (Latin)
Sesotho Banna ba Dale
Sinhalese ඩේල් මිනිසුන්
Slovak Muži Dale
Slovenian Možje Dolec
Somalian Niman yahow reer Dale
Spanish Hombres de Valle
Sundanese Lalaki ti Dale
Swedish Män av Dale
Tajik Cyrillic Мардони Дейл
Tamil டேல் ஆண்கள்
Telugu డేల్ మెన్
Thai ผู้ชายของหุบเขา
Turkish Dale Erkekleri
Vietnamese Đàn ông của Dale
Welsh Dynion o Dale
Ukrainian Cyrillic чоловіки долина
Uzbek Дале Эркаклар (Cyrillic) Dale Erkaklar (Latin)
Yiddish מענטשן פון דייל

References[]

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