Amlach is a man who argues at a council that men shouldn’t aid the elves in their war against Melkor. It’s later revealed that Amlach wasn’t at the council at all, and the person who spoke was Melkor’s spy who took on his appearance. The real Amlach joins Maedhros’s service.
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Amlach Character Timeline in The Silmarillion
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Chapter 17. Of the Coming of Men into the West
...discontent among the men remaining in Estolad. At a council of men, a man named Amlach argues that the Valar aren’t real and that the elves have provoked the dangerous creatures...
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