Girtfolk

The Girtfolk (Kú."i-kilta") were the people of "Girt-by-the-sea", in the second Age originally a númenórean prison Colony known as "kilta-Azranud",located on the southeastern coast of southernesse.The Númenórean's main interest had been in the gold found in the local mountains and rivers, so for generations they transferred an entire enslaved population, mostly from western Eriador, Gondor and Harad to the newly founded place to mine the precious material under their supervision instead of having to conquer and enslave the shy and scarce local population.With the drowning of Númenor however the colony lost almost all contact to it's former masters and eventually evolved into a small realm on it's own.