There a profitable trade sprang up between the Dwarves and the Dalesmen. The Dwarves of Durin's Folk, fleeing from the awakening of Durin's Bane in Khazad-dûm, established the Kingdom of Erebor in T.A. The major settlements of Dale were the town for which the Kingdom was named, Dale, in a valley before the Lonely Mountain, and Esgaroth upon the Long Lake.
Their numbers were swelled when the folk of Rhovanion, having lost wars against the Easterlings and Wainriders, fled over the Celduin to join their nation. Little is known of the first days of the then-small realm of Dale in the North, which eventually expanded to control all the land between Celduin and Carnen. They later proved themselves as loyal allies. By warring with the Easterlings, the Kingdom of Gondor had brought a long peace to these people and favoured them. However, when Sauron was driven back and banished, they were eventually able to recover, forming the many small princedoms in the lands of Rhovanion.
It is said that in their beginning, the Northmen of Rhovanion had dwelt all across Wilderland and were a rustic folk, living in small homesteads and wielding mainly light bows.īut after the fall of Eregion in the Second Age, they were scattered by Orcs and savage Easterlings and reduced to a primitive folk of cave and wood.
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