When Eorl and his people were granted Calenardhon - Rohan, as it would later be known - in TA 2510, they drove the Wild Men from their new lands, earning their bitter hatred and enmity. These were withdrawn following the Great Plague in TA 1636 and afterwards as the garrisons at Angrenost and Aglarond dwindled the Dunlendings began to infiltrate eastwards into Calenardhon. In the eight hundred year period between the reigns of Tarannon Falastur and Tarondor, Dunland was technically part of Gondor, and the kings maintained garrisons to protect the North-South Road. Dunland then became the area most populated by these men, who came to be called Dunlendings. At this time they had come to congregate in the valleys of the White Mountains and the grassy plains of Dunland, which lay west of the Misty Mountains between Moria and Isengard a few went north, and became the ancestors of the Men of Bree. They were hunted and persecuted in such numbers that they had dwindled by the start of the Third Age.
Wary of the men who came out of the west, they came to fear and hate them. In the years of the Second Age before the Númenóreans settled in Middle-earth, these tribal Hill-men inhabited the lands west and south of the Misty Mountains, as far down as the valleys surrounding the White Mountains.
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