Alan Sisto

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The Prancing Pony Podcast · 416 – The Sound of Silence · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, they're not mentioned in the published letters, aside from a very brief mention of the conversation between Khan Borekhan and Theoden, which is actually in a footnote.

So maybe Tolkien just wanted to learn more about them himself.

Now, that is, of course, actually a piece that Christopher publishes in full later in The Peoples of Middle-Earth, which is volume 10 of The History of Middle-Earth, in a piece called The Itani and Their Languages, found in Of Dwarves and Men.

And we'll go to that for more when it's called for.

For now, though, let's go back to the chapter and the introduction about the folk of Haleth.

Now, I've spent some time talking about this rather different group of people on Today's Tolkien Times lately, not on their own, but for them being the origin of groups of men like the Dunlendings.

That's right.

Now, they did intermarry at times, most notably Hareth, who married Galdor, the eldest son of Hador.

Their famous sons are Hur and Hur.

That was interesting that they just, they didn't do, they basically were stuck in a rut.

They didn't do anything new, right?

We read that they basically didn't change anything.

They didn't adopt new things or new customs and they kept their old practices.

That's who they are.

So still as different as they were, perhaps even odd to the other two houses, they were thought of, they were seen as loyal allies and formidable fighters.

I mean, yeah, they didn't send very large forces to these battles, but they were a small people to begin with.

their focus was of course primarily on just protecting their own lands.

I thought that was really interesting and I want to make sure we linger on that at least for a little bit.

I know this, this part of the discussion isn't about the Druid dime, but it's interesting that Tolkien marks out two things that are strange about the Holodin.

One is that they have this unusual group of people that are not like anybody else.

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