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(Weitergeleitet von 2. Volk der Edain)
Das zweite Volk der Edain (Atani) wurde von den Elben das Volk von Haleth genannt. Haleth war die spätere und berühmteste Anführerin jenes Teiles dieses Volkes, das im mittleren Ersten Zeitalter Beleriand erreichte und dort auf der Seite der Eldar an den Kriegen gegen Morgoth teilnahm. Halad führte dieses Volk nach Beleriand, daher wurde es auch anfangs die Haladin genannt.
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- Some years later, when the other folk were settled, the third folk of the Atani entered Beleriand. They were probably more numerous than the Folk of Bëor, but no certain count of them was ever made; for they came secretly in small parties and hid in the woods of Ossiriand where the Elves showed them no friendship. Moreover they had strife among themselves, and Morgoth, now aware of the coming of hostile Men into Beleriand, sent his servants to afflict them. Those who eventually moved westward and entered into friendship and alliance with the Eldar were called the Folk of Haleth, for Haleth was the name of their chieftainess who led them to the woods north of Doriath where they were permitted to dwell.
- ---The History of Middle-Earth Vol XII, Peoples of Middle-Earth, S.307
- The Folk of Haleth were strangers to the other Atani speaking an alien language; and though later united with them in alliance with the Eldar, they remained a people apart. Among themselves they adhered to their own language, and though of necessity they learned Sindarin for communication with the Eldar and the other Atani, many spoke it haltingly, and some of those who seldom went beyond the borders of their own woods did not use it at all. They did not willingly adopt new things or customs, and retained many practices that seemed strange to the Eldar and the other Atani, with whom they had few dealings except in war. Nonetheless they were esteemed as loyal allies and redoubtable warriors, though the companies that they sent to battle beyond their borders were small. For they were and remained to their end a small people, chiefly concerned to protect their own woodlands, and they excelled in forest warfare. Indeed for long even those Orks specially trained fo this dared not set foot near their borders. One of the strange practices spoken of was that many of their warriors were women, though few of these went abroad to fight in the great battle. This custom was evidently ancient;* for their chieftainess Haleth had been a renowned amazon with a picked bodyguard of women. (*Not due to their special situation in Beleriand, and maybe rather a cause of their small numbers than its result. They increased in numbers far more slowly than the other Atani, hardly more than was sufficient to replace the wastage of war; yet many of their women (who were fewer than the men) remained unwed.)
- ---The History of Middle-Earth Vol XII, Peoples of Middle-Earth, S.308/309
