Ûsteri Warrior of Luinemar
The Lênitani (Av."Water-men") or Lênirrêmbê (Av."Folk of the Lone Lakes"), were an Easterling-culture of the late First and early Second Age of Middle-Earth. They were descendants of Asrabi migrants who had fled eastwards from the Battle of Palisor, and remained largely neutral in the cultural conflicts between the Elven powers (and allies) and the realm of Morgoth.
These refugees from Hildorien largely settled along the Inland Sea of Helcar and remained there as the inland sea diminished into a cellection of many much smaller Lakelands, and there they remained as barbaric but proud peoples until the later ages, maintaining their exotic languages. They were therefore also known as the Eastern Lakepeople, and the men of Lygar Krâw and Kârn Ôrd were their descendants.
Others of their kind wandered as nomads through the Wild woods of the southeast for some time, until they contacted the Kwindi, an Avari-People of the lands about the Orocarni, and they exchanged goods and ideas. Accordingly, future Lênirrêm cultures demonstrated Elvish traits, such as an emphasis on ceremony and codes of honor, a very carefully-ordered way of life, and an elaborate tradition of crafts and fashion. These were the ancestors of the Jendiar and Daldúnair.
Still others of their kind traveled eastwards, into the vales of the Red Mountains. These, in turn, made contact with the local Dwarves of Rûrîk, and became their allies and traded crafts and ideas with them. The Ubain and Ûsteri were their descendants, and these people formed in later days an organized society of craftsmen and sages, akin in some ways to the northerly society of the Wômaw.
Descendants of the Linetan[]
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Original form in MERP: Linerim = Líner =Lênirrêmbê Linadan = Lênitani
The Linerim languages, made up the the ICE Authors, were spoken mainly in East Central Middle-Earth and are loosely based on Kugor and Mesoamerind vocabulary.