Middle-earth Mysteries - The Forodwaith

In the first video of my new series, we look at the possible answers to the question that no one asked - what happened to the Forodwaith?

And isn't Forochel a beautiful zone?

[LordTelperion]

Eskimos, anyone? Also I like the connection to Morgoth...not just running from him or pushed out of greener pastures by other baddies, but actually corralled there by Morgoth, just like he did to his human allies after the Battle of Unnumbered Tears: trapping them in the ruins of Hithlum instead of the promised lush lands of Beleriand.

[Funtimeshappy]

Enjoyed this. My guess is dragons were in the forodwaith and withered heath since the 1st age. If Thorondor lived on top of Angband, and no one knew of winged dragons / Ancalagon, the dragons were bred somewhere. Maybe the Forodwaith people were eaten.

[Mateo-oqui]

I believe the Forodwaith were the same people as the Beleriand Easterlings, either akin to the people of Ulfang and Bor that did not enter Beleriand, or the descendants of Bor's people, who did not get granted the land of Dor Lomin like Ulfang's host, and escaped back east after the Battle of Unnumbered Tears. We know that the Beleriand Easterlings were very keen on settling new lands, implying that wherever they came from was not a very pleasant place, and the first place these Easterlings entered Beleriand from was the land of Lothlann, which was directly to the west of where the ice Bay of Forochel would be after Beleriand sank.

[brandonluker]

2:57 "...and why just why did they choose to live in such a cold inhospitable place?"

Forodwaith: it's free real estate.

[BrianSmith-qlnj]

What a great format for a tolkienesque new story😮

[hazbojangles]

Man I love The Forochel music. Only ever seen two other players in Forochel in Lotro. It is a lonely place.

[fedorajones]

Awesome video bro. Would be interested to learn more about the spirit of Caradharas. Always thought there was more to that

[Kilo_Alpha_Delta]

I love this series idea. Definitely keep making more. I think the dragons are the most likely to have wiped out most of the Forodwaith, given it's the only enemies we know for a fact lived in the area.

[Prince_of_Dor-lomin]

I think I'm gonna like this series a lot, I love mysteries. I wonder how much inspiration Tolkien drew from real life, this story is very similar to the lost Roanoke colony/people.

I take it you're also gonna cover the unamed creatures deep down in the mountains where Gandalf was fighting the Balrog. I think that might be the only time I've seen Gandalf be genuinely unnerved.

[jonystyles]

finally someone doing these series, my dream has come true, thanks Darth! x) bring up the uknown lore man thats the best :)

about the Forodwaith people, its one of many interestings mysteries of ME, they are definitly from one of the first houses of man and some of these might settled in the North cold region where there was no active conflits... dont forget there might be some of them more in the East, upper north of the Iron Hills and near the Red Mountains... not only in the West

they are probably the same thing as the Druedain in the south, or the same of the Enedwaith folk, a nomadic clan of Men (probably from Haleth), with their own speech and same costume of beeing isolated to others, seems legit!

I think their downfall over the years were both your theories, cold winters, lack of resources by beeing isolated and some Orc/Dragons raid to their people, I suspect Angmar has caught some of them early on for slavering, so they went further West to the bay, thats why we see them there in the 3rd Age.

there has to be more proof in the Edain section or in the end of the First Age, they had to come from somewhere, some say their are relatives of the first Earsterlings that were loyal to Men and Elves but I still doubt it

[TheMasonK]

Keep up the Middle Earth Mystery Series!

[BrianOxleyTexan]

Appreciate the LotRO music for background.

[attila]

Interestingly the Lossoth speak finnish in Lord of the Rings Online.

[donaldscholand]

Lapland, northern Finland. Reindeer herders.

[jamiegregg]

it was interesting and I enjoyed it looking forward to the next one

[goshlike]

Brilliant. I always imagined that the Lossoth were a much greater people. Indeed because of the word remnant. Could you ever do a video on the Blue mountains and their inhabitants and maybe Lindon in general I guess?

[untitled]

If you get somehwere cold, move to a warmer place.. just dont overdo it.. like Haradrim

[ingold]

To be fair, if a man from Oxford learned about a place like Nunavut with -50 degree winters, he'd probably name it something like "The Grinding Ice" too.

[squamish]

Given how abruptly cold it gets not that far north of the Shire (it would be like if London was the climate it is, and Edinburgh was ice-covered), the cold conjured up by Morgoth that existed north of the Iron Mountains must have still existed in the Third Age, so it is likely that Forodwaith was the prior location of the Iron Mountains and beyond.

[reecepip]

Hello and welcome to Darth Detective does decoding daily and for our next episode, Who was Debbie the Dunlanding and why did she dance in the Dimrill Dale. Haha, great video dude excited for the series!