1) Middle-earth Edain 
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Edain n were men (humans) who made their way into Beleriand in the First Age, and were friendly to the Elves. The Sindarin word Edain (the second syllable is pronounced as English dine rather than English dane; the stress falls on the first syllable), singular Adan (Quenya Atani, Atan) literally meant Second...