Baran (House of Bëor)

In Tolkien's legendarium, the House of Bëor (pronounced [ˈbɛɔr]) were the family of Men who ruled over the eldest of the Three Houses of the Edain that had allied with the Elves in the First Age.

The First House of Men, called the House or Folk of Bëor, was the smallest of the Three, having at the time of their coming to Beleriand "no more than two thousand full-grown men; and they were poor and ill-equipped, but they were inured to hardship and toilsome journeys carrying great loads, for they had no beasts of burden." Most of the Folk of Bëor had brown hair with grey eyes, and some of them were swarthy in skin. They were taller than the Folk of Haleth, but still less in height than the House of Hador. The Bëorians were "steadfast in endurance of hardship and sorrow, slow to tears and to laughter; their fortitude needed no hope to sustain it." They were akin to the Folk of Hador and spoke a closely related language, though its knowledge was mostly lost later.

The future Folk of Bëor were originally a single people with the future House of Hador, and they journeyed together from the East of Middle-earth after rejecting servitude to the Dark Lord (Morgoth). They became separated on the way and for a time dwelt on opposite shores of the Sea of Rhûn, the Lesser Folk (Bëorians) in the hills to the south-west and the Greater Folk (Marachians) in the woods to the north-east. Afterwards both people went on westward, crossing the Misty Mountains and Eriador, where many of the both people remained throughout later ages; and of them the Breelanders were descended.

The Lesser Folk, now led by Bëor the Old, were the first to cross the Blue Mountains and descend into the woods of Ossiriand in the Eastern Beleriand in the Year of the Sun 310. There they were found and befriended by the Elf-lord Finrod Felagund. But the local Green Elves were troubled by the intrusion, so Finrod led the Folk of Bëor to the wide and empty plains ruled aforetime by Amras, and these were now called Estolad, the Encampment. Soon they were accompanied there by the newcome Folk of Marach.

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