The recorded history of Middle-earth centers on the Elves and those Men who joined them. Little is known about the others, those inhabitants of Eriador, Rhovanion and Gondor who were not reckoned, however loosely, among the Elf-friends. In Gondor they became eventually known as the "Middle Men", the decisive distinction from the "Men of Darkness" being their political attitude towards Elves and Númenóreans. They as well as the Dwarves mostly ignored them, however, the Hobbits had no accounts transmitted, official Dúnedain and Rohirrim policy undifferentiatedly stamped them with labels reading "wild" and often "Enemy" despite their own remote ancestors, the Three Houses of the Edain, being related to them. Thus, the story of their fates was never compiled but spread in mere glimpses across numerous sources. It is, however, worth the task to extract their many-faceted history from the available material.