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List of original characters in The Hobbit film series – original characters in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy; Middle-earth peoples – descriptions of races and groups in the legendarium; Women in The Lord of the Rings – analysis of female characters in The Lord of the Rings
The wizards of Middle-earth are Maiar: spirits of the same order as the Valar, but lesser in power. [T 3] Outwardly resembling Men but possessing much greater physical and mental power, they are called Istari (Quenya for "Wise Ones") by the Elves. [T 3] They are sent by the Valar to assist the people of Middle-earth to contest Sauron.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, Man and Men denote humans, whether male or female, in contrast to Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and other humanoid races. [1] Men are described as the second or younger people, created after the Elves, and differing from them in being mortal.
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The Master of Lake-town, [T 15] a grasping politician who met his end starving in the wilderness with the wealth he plundered from his own people after the destruction of Lake-town. [T 2] He is not named explicitly but had the nickname "Moneybags". [T 13] Balin mentions his successor "the new Master" when he visits Bilbo. [T 2]
Tolkien invented parts of Middle-earth to resolve the linguistic puzzle he had accidentally created by using different European languages for those of peoples in his legendarium. [5] [T 15] In Grey-elvish or Sindarin the Dwarves are called Naugrim ("Stunted People"), Gonnhirrim ("Stone-lords"), and Dornhoth ("Thrawn Folk"), and Hadhodrim.
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His people settled in Eldar lands. At the beginning of the Second Age, the Valar gave the Edain Númenor to live on. Númenor was an island-continent located far to the west of Middle-earth, and hence these Edain came to be called Dúnedain: Edain of the West.