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I was interested by Saucepan man's quote from Aragorn, who refers to the 'Beornings of the Wood'. Does this mean that the Beornings are in fact the Woodmen? The Woodmen were the people living on the western edge of Mirkwood who were troubled by goblin attacks and occasionally took potshots at eagles, as is related in The Hobbit.

I remember reading one of the old MERP RPG supplements where they have Beorn as a sort of spiritual leader of the Beornings who lives in isolation from the rest of the people, a reasonable speculation I'd guess.

By the way their leader at the time of the War of the Ring was called Grimbeorn, who was a descendant of Beorn.