#bereg

(I rely on Professor Tolkien's descriptions, where it was said that the people of Beor were darker than the rest of the Edain tribes, and that among them there were both very dark and pale ones, such as Morwen. Therefore, please, don’t point your finger at me that I did something wrong, because I only do what is written in the books)

So Amlach is doing pretty ordinary, typical politics - the Edain splitting into different groups under new leaders with different ideas isn’t unusual. (Hador leaving his father’s people in the Teiglin area and moving his family and followers to Hithlum to align more closely with the Elves there is a later example.) And then this phantom or shapechanger apparently shows up at apublic meeting pretending to be him and says all kinds of crazy stuff about the elves being outright evil and Morgoth not existing. Which - nothing says ‘yes, there’s sonething spooky going on’ like someone who can show up looking and sounding like you when you’re not even there! So in reaction to this old-style deepfake, Amlach decides there’s something bigger going on here than ordinary politics, and he’s not going to be played and taken advantage of in this way, and he’s going to get back at Morgoth for it. But he’s also not going to copycat his uncle and head to Hithlum. So he goes north and joins up with Maedhros.

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2021.08.20., nyíregyháza

The leaders of discontent were Bereg of the house of Bëor, and Amlach, one of the grandsons of Marach; and they said openly: 'We took long roads, desiring to escape the perils of Middle-earth and the dark things that dwell there; for we heard that there was Light in the West. But now we learn that the Light is beyond the Sea. Thither we cannot come where the Gods dwell in bliss. Save one; for the Lord of the Dark is here before us, and the Eldar, wise but fell, who make endless war upon him. In the North he dwells, they say; and there is the pain and death from which we fled. We will not go that way.' ~ The Silmarillion, Chapter 17 ('Men proved easier to ensnare' by peet, deviantART) 

          Baranor was the younger son of Baran, head of the House of Bëor. He was closer to his father than his brother Boron, though it was Boron who was Baran’s heir. Baran confided in his son his resentments toward the elves who had pressed his father, Bëor, into their service, and Baranor grew to share those bitter feelings. He passed down that distrust of elvenkind to his own son, Bereg, despite his wife Canneth’s personal admiration of the elves with shining eyes and clever tongues.           Bereg was unsatisfied with only quiet mutterings about the treachery of the elves, and when he came of age he (along with Amlach of the House of Marach) began to organize an unrest among all the Men of Beleriand, stirring them up against their overlords. He claimed that their journey westward had been in vain, for the Light of the Gods was beyond an impassable sea, and danger was yet all about them.           Many hearts were swayed, and not even the revelation of the Dark King’s tricks and treachery in causing these dissensions could change the will of Bereg. Though Amlach repented of his malcontent, Bereg would not, and led a thousand of his House east across the mountains. None in Beleriand knew what became of them, but some say that the forest-people of Eryn Vorn are their descendants.