Awakening of Men
The Awakening of Men was the stirring of the first Men, in the far eastern land of Hildórien, towards the end of the First Age, when the Years of the Sun began. They were awakened by Ilúvatar, when the first Sun rose in the West.
Other versions of the legendarium
In the early The Book of Lost Tales, the Men awoke thanks to the Elf Nuin, who discovered them sleeping in an enclosed valley of the East called Murmenalda, the Vale of Sleep. Accidentally he stirred a sleeper, overcome with curiosity, and he woke the first pair of Men, right before the first rising of the Sun from the West. Their names were Ermon and Elmir. Nuin also taught them speech, and thus was the Father of Speech.
In the Round World version of the Silmarillion of c. 1955, the awakening of Men is proposed to be much earlier, sometime between the Awakening of the Elves and the Battle of the Powers (Years of the Trees 1050 - Years of the Trees 1100). In a draft published in The Nature of Middle-earth, the date is given as Years of the Trees 1075 (which is of course by no means final desision).
Referencias
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