Adan redirects here; Adan is also the name of a
governorate of
Yemen. In the fiction of
J. R. R. Tolkien, the Edain (
IPA: ) were those
men (humans) who made their way into
Beleriand in the
First Age, and were friendly to the Elves.The
Sindarin word Edain (The second syllable is pronounced as English dine rather than English dane; the stress falls on the first syllable), singular Adan (Quenya Atani, Atan) literally meant Second People, and originally referred to all Men, but later it only applied to the Men of Beleriand and their descendants. The
Quenya term Atani kept its old meaning.
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[Celtic] The Celtic goddess who is associated with horseback-riding. She isprobably equivalent to the Gaulish goddess Epona.