Dates

The term was used especially in the later Third Age, when those fleeing the troubles in the southern lands were regularly seen in Bree

Race

Apparently used mainly of Men, though at least one Southerner was suspected of being partly descended from Orcs

Culture

This name was used among the Bree-landers

Settlements

The Southerners were seen in the town of Bree

Note

The term Southerners is not to be confused with Southrons, a word of closely similar meaning, but used of the Haradrim who lived far southward of the Southerners encountered in Bree

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Updated 5 January 2024
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Southerners

Travellers from the south

Years of the TreesFirst AgeISecond AgeIIThird AgeIIIFourth AgeIV

A general term used in Bree for those visitors passing northward up the Greenway from the south. It is used especially for one suspicious character, known only as the 'squint-eyed Southerner' (The Fellowship of the Ring I 9) with nefarious aims. His origins and goals are not entirely clear: The Lord of the Rings itself suggests that he had some Goblin ancestry and was working as a spy for Saruman, but other sources imply that he was a Dunlending, and perhaps even under the influence of the Nazgûl.

Southerners

Travellers from the south

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