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Men of Twilight
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Men of Twilight was a term used by the Númenóreans for Men of Middle-earth who were related to the Edain, the ancestors of the Númenóreans themselves. This contrasts with the Gondorians, "Men of Light", and the Haradrim and Easterlings, "Men of Darkness". In The Two Towers Chapter 5 The Window on the West the Men of Twilight are also called Middle Men: "We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things." When the Númenóreans returned to the coasts of Middle-earth in the Second Age, they found a people who spoke languages which were distantly related to the Númenórean tongue, Adûnaic. Númenórean scholars declared that this was because these Men were descendants of the fathers of the Edain, the Atanatári, who had not crossed the Ered Luin and entered Beleriand during the First Age. The Númenóreans set up friendly relations with them, and declared them to be Middle Men, as opposed to the High Men or the Men of the Shadow, meaning those hostile to Númenor or in the service of Sauron. After the founding of the Realms in Exile, Arnor and Gondor, many Men of Twilight became subjects of the Dúnedain, and eventually intermarried with them until they became one people.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of men of twilight in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of men of twilight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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