The term Men of Good Will was used by Elves during the Second Age to refer to non-Númenórean Men in Middle-earth who were descended from those who opposed Morgoth during the First Age.[1] The Men of Good Will consisted of tribes "who lived in Eriador and Calenardhon and the Vales of Anduin and in the Great Wood and the plains between that and Mordor and the Sea of Rhûn."[1] These tribes included descendants of the Edain who remained in Middle-earth during the Second Age and dwelled in Eriador instead of sailing to Númenor; descendants of the Edain's close kin who had never travelled westward beyond the Blue Mountains into Beleriand during the First Age; "and others of remoter kin".[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F. Hostetter (ed.), The Nature of Middle-earth, "Part Three. The World, its Lands, and its Inhabitants: XVIII. Note on the Delay of Gil-galad and the Númenóreans"