Dates

Entered Beleriand between I 310 and I 313; sailed west to Númenor in II 32

Race

Meaning

The Quenya form of the Sindarin Edain, 'Second People' (that is, Men)

Pronunciation

a'tahnee

Other names

Atanatári, Edain, Fathers of Men, Fathers of the Númenóreans, Men of the North-west, Men of the Three Houses

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Atani

The Men of the Edain

Years of the TreesFirst AgeISecond AgeIIThird AgeIIIFourth AgeIV

Ancestors of the
Atani

House of Bëor
First House

House of Haleth
Second House

House of Hador
Third House

An Elvish name for Men, and especially the Men of the Three Houses of the Edain.

See also...

Atanatári, Rú, Second People, Secondborn

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