The Eglain (S. pl. "[The] Forsaken"), also known as the Lost and the Forsaken, were a small and scattered tribe of semi-nomadic men, descendants of an ancient people who had forsaken the towns and cities of "civilized" folk and choose to live as free men in the wild, living in the Lone lands. Descendants of the ancient Eriadorians, many of them lived as hunters, wandering craftsmen, scavengers, or as traders, in loose camps around the old ruins along the Great East Road. The Eglain were wanderers, but they would sometimes stop and make a temporary home in one set of ruins or another, which they called their "Ruin-hold". The current Ruin-hold in T.A. 3019 lay amid the ruins of the once-great fortress of Ost Guruth.
They may have been relatives or part of the Tinker-People.