King Elessar eventually made peace with the Easterlings, and they were allowed to remain in Rhûn. LOTR - Rhun and Harad Part of my Rhun and Harad force which consists of The Serpent Lord, his giant bodyguard, a Dragon Knight, a Easterling War Priest, some Easterling and Haradrim warriors, and one soon to be blue wizard. The Harad Expedition by StraightOuttaHimring The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Teen And Up Audiences No Archive Warnings Apply Harad's west coast (the nearest to Gondor) is washed by the Great Sea, the western ocean of Middle-earth. Due to their fierce hatred for the men of West, they allied together with Sauron and Mordor, and their armies attacked the forces of Gondor throughout the Third Age.. Harad units can be accessed when a Mordor player buys the spell 'Reinforcements of Harad'. Eastern Lands of Middle-earth, east of Mordor and Rhovanion Key publications included the setting books Umbar: Haven of the Corsairs (1982),[36] Far Harad (1988),[37] and Greater Harad (1990),[38] as well as the adventure books Warlords of the Desert (1989),[39] Forest of Tears (1989),[40] and Hazards of the Harad Wood (1990). Aman | Rhûn, also known as The East and Eastlands in the Westron tongue, is a large region in the far eastern part of Middle-earth. The main weapon of the infantry of Rhûn that marched upon Gondor seemed to be the spear, although there were reports of short, swarthy men wielding axes during Battle of the Pelennor Fields. [27][24] Straubhaar concedes that Shapiro may have had a point with "slant-eyed", but comments that this was milder than that of many of his contemporary novelists such as John Buchan, and notes that Tolkien had in fact made "appalled objection" when people had misapplied his story to current events. [7], Commentators such as Rearick Anderson and Stephen Shapiro have identified the Haradrim as a recognisably foreign race as well as the enemy, and have accused Tolkien of racism. The most western parts of Rhûn were conquered by Gondor twice, under the Kings Rómendacil I and Rómendacil II, but the Númenóreans never had full control over it. [31][32][33] "Haradrim Slayers" feature in the computer game The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring,[34] while in the video game Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Baranor, a playable character who is a captain in Gondor's guard, is originally from Harad. "[7], The Men of Harad are called Haradrim ("South-multitude"), Haradwaith, or Southrons by the people of Gondor. Gondor | Weathertop | The frozen north is known as the Northern Wastes. 'Umbar' apparently is a name given to the area by the locals (that happened to have a meaning in Quenya as well), but both Harad and Rhûn have Sindarin names. The western part of Rhûn was visible in maps of the Westlands of Middle-earth. [29] The battle scene in Ithilien between the rangers of Gondor and the men of Harad was shot at the Twelve Mile Delta near Queenstown, New Zealand. Some Elves forsook this Great Journey and chose to remain in the east; they were called the Avari. [30], The Haradrim and the Corsairs of Umbar appear in much merchandise for the film trilogy, such as toys, The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game, and the computer game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II. Harad | The … Over the centuries many Haradrim fall under Sauron's dominion, and to "them Sauron was both king and god, and they feared him exceedingly". These include the “Dark Land” (Antarctica), “the Land of the Sun” (the Americas), and “the Undying Lands” (Australia?). [35], Iron Crown Enterprises produced a series of books for their tabletop roleplaying game Middle-earth Role Playing containing information about Harad and content allowing games to be set there. At the end of the Third Age, much of the northwest of Middle-earth is wild, with traces here and there of ruined cities and fortresses from earlier civilisations among the mountains, rivers, forests, hills, plains and marshes. [T 4], The great harbour city of Umbar lies on Harad's north-west coast; its natural harbour is the base of the Corsairs of Umbar, inspired by the Barbary pirates,[1] who provide the Dark Lord Sauron with a sizeable fleet. When the seven Fathers of the Dwarves awoke in far-flung corners of Middle-earth, some of them found themselves in Rhûn, and there they founded kingdoms under mountains. They very likely had names in the tongues of the natives who lived there, but how the regions were split up and what names they give themselves we never learn. The ancestors of the Edain and Drúedain traveled west out of Rhûn. [22] Tolkien however mentioned Pyrrhus of Epirus's use of war elephants against Ancient Rome in 280–275 BC in his notes for the illustrator Pauline Baynes. Dead Marshes | But the Men of Rhûn and of Harad, Easterling and Southron, saw the ruin of their war and the great majesty and glory of the Captains of the West. 1940 Uvatha, satisfied with his gains in the Harad and feeling (mistakenly) secure in the strength of his northern holdings, returns to Mordor. Frodo and Sam do not see much of the battle, since they are positioned elsewhere, but they hear the sounds of fighting, and a slain Haradrim warrior crashes at their feet. Minas Tirith | The land of Sîrayn (Tz. Both the Balchoth and Wainriders were factions of the Easterlings at least by the Third Age. Rivendell | [41] Games Workshop have produced miniatures and rules relating to Harad for use in the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game, including for mumakil and Corsairs of Umbar. The Haradrim appear in a variety of games and merchandise inspired by The Lord of the Rings. In J. R. R. Tolkien's heroic romance The Lord of the Rings, Harad is the immense land south of Gondor and Mordor. [8][19] With his "Southrons" from Harad, Tolkien had – in the view of John Magoun, writing in The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia – constructed a "fully expressed moral geography",[18] from the hobbits' home in the Northwest, evil in the East, and "imperial sophistication and decadence" in the South. Utumno, Cair Andros | In the books, they are told to have once used bowmen upon horses and then they are described as companies of horsemen. However, by the Fourth Age Rhûn had emerged as an recognized superpower. The unknown eastern lands of Middle-earth Argonath, Númenor | [14] The critic Tom Shippey writes that Tolkien's philological research, described in his essay "Sigelwara Land",[T 19] began from the assumption that the word could not originally have meant Aethiopian, but must have been co-opted to that usage having once meant something comparable. Mannish dialect unknown to the rest of Middle-earth[2], Khuzdul, Avari languages, Rhûnic Grey Havens | The first Elves awoke far east of the Sea of Rhûn, and many of them were led to the Westlands by Oromë. There are large elephants known as mûmakil, influenced by the zoologist Georges Cuvier's 1796 discovery of bones and palaeolithic drawings of mammoths. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, "3 Most Photographed Lord of the Rings Locations", "The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II Game Guide. Southwest of the Sea of Rhûn lay also the land of Dorwinion. People Dwarves emerged in Middle-earth in the Years of the Trees: after Elves but before Men. The Shire | Every faction has its o… Dol Guldur | Both the Wainriders and the Balchoth also used chariots. Beyond Harad or Rhûn there are other continents mentioned. In addition to the existing excellent answer, I want to point out that Appendix A makes clear that throughout its history Gondor was at war on an off with Harad and Rhûn. In the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, the leader of the Haradrim army is killed by King Théoden of Rohan. Somewhere in the lost east, too, lay Cuiviénen and Hildórien, where Elves and Men first awoke: all the Children of Ilúvatar could trace their ancestries back to the eastward regions of Middle-earth. J. R. R. Tolkien (1989), ed. Enedwaith | Aug 4, 2020 - Men of the eastern kingdoms in Harad and Rhun from J.R.R Tolkien's books the Lord of the Rings. Near Harad corresponds loosely with North Africa or the Maghreb, while Far Harad, the vastly larger of the two regions, corresponds loosely with sub-Saharan Africa. Harad is a large land in the south of Middle-earth, bordered to the north by (from west to east) the lands of Gondor, Mordor, Khand and Rhûn. Dagorlad | The Sea of Rhûn is a large body of water in the northwestern Rhûn, which serves as a border of sorts between it and Wilderland. Their fates are unknown and whether they were successful in inspiring the peoples they had contact with to resist Sauron's influence is unknown. Almost as bad as Orcs, and much bigger. Western Rhûn was finally subdued in the Fourth Age under King Elessar and his son Eldarion. They sought refuge in Middle-earth's western lands, where some of them met Frodo Baggins. Christopher Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, "Tolkien annotated map of Middle-earth acquired by Bodleian library", J.R.R. "Can you see anything?" A companion book on the film's "Creatures" states that the Haradrim were based on 12th century Saracens. [T 7] He deduced that this word referred to some kind of soot-black fire demon before it was applied to the Aethiopians. Harad: Spammer/Generalist - Harad enjoys perhaps the most diverse unit roster in the game. Harad is divided in two provinces by the peoples of Middle-Earth; Near Harad , which is south to Gondor and Mordor , and Far Harad , which is even more unexplored than Near Harad and home to the Argonians and the fearsome Mûmakil . In the Third Age, Dwarves of those kingdoms journeyed out of Rhûn to join all Middle-earth's other Dwarf clans in the War of the Dwarves and Orcs, which was fought in and under the Misty Mountains. The border with Mordor runs along the southern Mountains of Shadow. Rhûn Castle and Large Castle. See more ideas about Jrr tolkien books, Tolkien books, Lotr. Arnor | Umbar | Type The ships are different types of galleys, with both oars and sails; some are named as dromunds, others as having a deep draught (requiring a deep channel), many oars, and black sails. Ancient enemies of Gondor, they allied with Sauron during the War of the Ring. Region The resulting meaning for Sigelhearwan, Tolkien decided tentatively, was "rather the sons of Muspell than of Ham", an ancient class of demons in Northern mythology "with red-hot eyes that emitted sparks and faces black as soot". He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home. "Watered Earth"), known to the Gondorians as Greater Harad (S."Panncharad"), was be divided into five major areas: Îsra, Kîrm Lesra (including Kîrmlesran Hills and the Dalad Kîrm), the eastern coast and forest (the Sára Básk), the Plain of Cénnacatt, and the Tûr Betark. Valinor | High Pass | Mirkwood | Other scholars such as Walter Scheps and Isabel G. MacCaffrey have noted Middle-earth's "spatial cum moral dimensions". There's nothing.". Amon Hen | Ettenmoors | They carry round spiked shields, painted yellow and black. [28], In Peter Jackson's film The Two Towers, the Haradrim appear Middle Eastern, with turbans, flowing robes, and riding elephants. This warrior is described as having "brown" skin, with black plaits of hair braided with gold. He based the Haradrim's use of war elephants, meanwhile, on that of Pyrrhus of Epirus in his war against Ancient Rome. I am sure many hours went into playtesting this mod and I love it. The first Men also awoke in the far east, where they first met Dwarves[1] and Avari. Tol Eressëa, The unknown eastern lands of Middle-earth. Fornost | Even Gandalf had never explored there, and although Aragornvisited once, his activities are not recounted. Having only read LOTR and The Hobbit out of Tolkien's works (digging my way through The Simarillion), I was wondering if Rhûn, Khand and Harad are ever properly explored or explained in other stories? Critics have debated whether Tolkien was racist in making the protagonists white and the antagonists black, but others have noted that he was strongly anti-racist in real life, opposing any attempt to demonise the enemy in both World Wars. Harad's west coast (the nearest to Gondor) is washed by the Great Sea, the western ocean of Middle-earth. The Northern Wastes are an expanse of arctic land north of the Grey and Misty Mountains and the Iron Hills. 1. "Rhûn" is a name used for all lands lying east of Rhovanion, around and beyond the inland Sea of Rhûn, from where many attacks on Gondor and its allies came during the Third Age. But at a certain point, unexpected visitors came from across the ocean. Late in the Third Age, when war and terror grew in Rhûn itself, considerable numbers of its Dwarves left their ancient homelands. Erebor | [T 16] By the time of the War of the Ring, the Haradrim are again under the dominion of Sauron, and the Haradrim Corsairs provide the whole of his Black Fleet; many other Haradrim join his armies, some riding mûmakil. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. 1940 - 44 The Igath, united under the charismatic Avas III, soon fill all of Southern Rhun , pushing the Asdriag tribes east and threatening Khands holdings in Nurad and the plateau itself. Many Merchants from Harad and even Rhun managed to find their way to this Southern dwelling. Sigel meant, according to Tolkien, "both sun and jewel", the former as it was the Old English name of the Sun rune *sowilō (ᛋ), the latter connotation from Latin sigillum, a seal. Gondor conquered western edge of Rhûn twice: under the Kings Rómendacil I and Rómendacil II, but the Númenóreans never had full control over it. Very little is known of the lands beyond the great Sea of Rhûn that stood on its borders with the western lands. The Middle Middle Earth Middle Ages Tolkien Books Jrr Tolkien Fantasy Warrior Fantasy Art John Howe Armadura Medieval [9] Despite having a meaning in Quenya ("fate"), the name Umbar is adapted from the natives' language and not from Elvish or Adûnaic. [18][b], Solopova argues that the Haradrim's mûmakil war elephants put their country far to the East, since only India and lands to its east went on using war elephants after classical times. Rhûn | Iron Hills | The exception would be, she suggests, the men of Far [Southern] Harad whom the people of Gondor saw as "black men like half-trolls with white eyes and red tongues". Tolkien's own annotated map of Middle-earth, used by the illustrator Pauline Baynes to construct her iconic map, suggests that "Elephants appear in the great battle outside Minas Tirith (as they did in Italy under Pyrrhus) but they would be in place in the blank squares of Harad – also camels. Sauron himself journeyed into the eastward lands, in hiding from the White Council during the centuries known in the west as the Watchful Peace. The Harad Road is the main overland route between Gondor and Harad. "Nothing. Ithilien | Straubhaar contrasts this with Sam Gamgee's more humane response to the sight of a dead Harad warrior, which she finds "harder to find fault with": "He was glad that he could not see the dead face. Straubhaar writes that "a polycultured, polylingual world is absolutely central"[25] to Middle-earth, and that readers and filmgoers will easily see that. During the Third Age, Rhûn was visited by three Wizards; Saruman, Alatar, and Pallando, and though Saruman returned to the west, the two Blue Wizards remained. Minas Morgul | Regions Tolkien approached the question by analysing the two parts of the word. [T 15][8] Under King Hyarmendacil I "South-victor" of Gondor, Harad becomes a vassal of Gondor. Walkthrough: Evil Campaign", "The Lord of the Rings: Online Trading Card Game – Starter Deck Guide", "The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II Walkthrough", "The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring - Perfect Walkthrough", "Review: Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Desolation of Mordor", Risk: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition, Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings", The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harad&oldid=1009997619, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 3 March 2021, at 09:07. It's easier to play now as either, to the point where it's just boring. There is an island in this sea near the Eastern shore called Tol Rhûnaer. Often, the Easterlings in a mixed contingent of Orcs, Haradrim, Variags, Corsairs, or Uruk-hai would be the first to clash with the enemy and the last to leave the field. [T 11] He wears a scarlet tunic, as do the other Haradrim, and a gold collar. In Peter Jackson's film The Two Towers, the Haradrim were based on 12th century Saracens; they have turbans and flowing robes, and they ride elephants. Description Historically the border with Gondor was to be the river Harnen, but by the time of the War of the Ring all the land further north to … [6] Other men remained in Rhûn, and many of them came under the dominion of Morgoth and, later, Sauron. I have a Harad game where I have to hold myself back from stomping on Gondor just to make it interesting. The Haradrim or Southrons were the proud and warlike people of the Harad, in the south of Middle-earth. Dunland | Rhûn was known for numerous fighting forces, nearly spelling the doom of Gondor and heralding Sauron's complete victory over all Middle-earth. Historically the border with Gondor was to be the river Harnen, but by the time of the War of the Ring all the land further north to the river Poros is under the influence of the Haradrim. Old Forest | Hornburg | Four Dwarven clans were also located in Rhûn; their strongholds were at least as far east from Mount Gundabad in the Misty Mountains as Mount Gundabad lay east of the Blue Mountains. In FA 3600 the Reunited Eastern Kingdoms of Rhûn, Khand and Far Harad was formed, rising as one of the world's two recognized global superpowers along with the Reunited Kingdom of Gondor, Rhovanion and Arnor. Those people would be predisposed to Sauron ("the enemy of my enemy is my friend"). [26] She argues instead that Gollum's view, with its "arbitrary and stereotypical assumptions about the 'Other'",[26] is absurd, and that Gollum cannot be taken as an authority on Tolkien's opinion. Completing Mordor would do a lot of good for both Rhun and Harad in that way, since they are all more or less parallel to each other. The Serpent Lord and giant were … Harondor, otherwise known as South Gondor, was a buffer zone in the very north of Harad between the lush, verdant grasslands on the Gondor side of the Anduin and the inhospitable dunes of sand to the f… Rhûn [T 13], The Haradrim are independent peoples, but in the Second Age they are caught between the ambitions of Sauron (the Dark Lord) and the Númenóreans, who often kill Haradrim or sell them as slaves, and who become rulers of Harad. Orthanc | For more information about each biome, please see the individual biome pages. Other names The forest of Eryn Rhûnaer takes up most of the center of the island, while the plain serves as its edge. Harad is a large land in the south of Middle-earth, bordered to the north by (from west to east) the lands of Gondor, Mordor, Khand and Rhûn. [13], Tolkien decided that Hearwa was related to the Old English heorð, meaning "hearth", and ultimately to the Latin carbo, meaning "soot". Near-Harad is numerous in species ranging from the gigantic Oliphant ( Mûmak ), to the small tropical birds. At the shores of the Sea of Rhûn, some of the Mannish tribes traveling west separated and their languages soon diverged. It had many different groups who ultimately fought together and were in Sauron's service. Even Gandalf had never explored there, and although Aragorn visited once, his activities are not recounted. Barad-dûr | So I have three questions about this mod as stated in the title, I started playing this mod nearly a week ago and it is really excellent, anyway hear are my questions. Very little is known of the lands beyond the great Sea of Rhûn that stood on its borders with the western lands. [17], The Germanic studies scholar Sandra Ballif Straubhaar notes that it is not clear whether Tolkien meant the Haradrim to be grouped with his "Wild Men", though he named them as ancient enemies of Gondor. [17] Lee and Solopova also mention that Tolkien could have used the Old English version by Ælfric of the Book of Maccabees, which carefully introduces elephants to its Anglo-Saxon audience, using much the same phrase as Sam Gamgee, "māre þonne sum hūs", "bigger than a house", before describing their use in battle; the hero stabs the elephant, which is carrying a "wīghūs", a "battle-house", from below. Lords/Kings of the Easterlings, Location of Rhûn in Middle-earth, marked in red. Governance The people of Rhûn were finally subdued in the Fourth Age under King Elessar (Aragorn) and his son Eldarion. This page is an overview of all the biomes in the larger region of Far Harad. Harad combines Rhûn's numbers with Dale's missile power, and the Beornings' aptness for psychological warfare. Its main port is Umbar, the base of the Corsairs of Umbar whose ships serve as the Dark Lord Sauron's fleet. The hobbits called the area the Sunlands, and the people Swertings. Tolkien based the Haradrim on ancient Aethiopians, people of Sub-Saharan Africa, following his philological research on the Old English word Sigelwara. Magoun explains that Gondor is both virtuous, being West, and has problems, being South; Mordor in the Southeast is hellish, while Harad in the extreme South "regresses into hot savagery". These were supremely effective in the flat no-man's lands that characterized much of Rhovanion in the wide corridor between the southern eaves of Mirkwood and the northern flanks of Mordor, routing and destroying the armies of Gondor under King Narmacil II in the Battle of the Plains. A host of elves who came from the blessed realm of Valinor. [2] The Quenya word Hyarmen similarly means "south" in addition to being the name of the country. The following clans are: the Ironfists, Stiffbeards, Blacklocks, Stonefoots. Harad is a large land in the south of Middle-earth, bordered to the north by (from west to east) the lands of Gondor, Mordor, Khand and Rhûn. I would expect to see Rhun before Harad or Umbar simply for the coordinates-based-reason that they don't really have as many coordinates fleshed-out for zones south of Mordor as of yet. The only thing I can decypher from LOTR is that Harad is a sort of Arab-like country filled with harsh Sauron-"worshippers". The major nations that appear in The Lord of the Rings are Rohan and Gondor on the side of the Free Peoples, and Mordor and its ally Harad on the side of the Dark Lord. Something is known of its ancient geography from The Silmarillion; far beyond the Sea of Rhûn was another inland sea, the Sea of Helcar, and beyond that a range of mountains known as the Orocarni (Red Mountains). Caradhras | Play with all important factions of the Third Age, including Gondor, Rohan, High and Silvan Elves, Dwarves, Eriador, Dale, Isengard, Mordor, Rhûn, Harad, the Orcs of Gundabad and the Orcs of the Misty Mountains, and if you are able to lead your kingdom to former glory even the reunited Arnor. The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor, https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Rhûn?oldid=266889. The Inland Sea of Rhûn was located in western Rhûn on the border between Rhûn and Wilderland. "Rhûn" is a name used for all lands lying east of Rhovanion, around and beyond the inland Sea of Rhûn, from where many attacks on Gondor and its allies came during the Third Age. This is not a description of the Men called "Haradrim" themselves, but a description of another group of Men from the same continent. ...out of Far Harad black men like half-trolls with white eyes and red tongues. [3][4][T 5], Elsewhere in Harad there are "many towns";[T 6] one of these is "the inland city", the home of Queen Berúthiel (mentioned by Tolkien in an interview). From there, she notes that the "recurring accusations in the popular media" of a racist view of the story are "interesting". Their standards are scarlet, and their great beasts, the mûmakil, have scarlet and gold trappings. Third Age Total War Rhun and Harad campaign music 1 - YouTube Rohan | Additionally, Sauron maintained a fortress in Rhûn in the Third Age. The Old English Biblical poem Exodus in the tenth-century Codex Junius 11 includes a passage that caught Tolkien's attention:[11], Tolkien was interested in particular in the Old English word used for "Aethiopians": it was Sigelwara, or in Tolkien's emendation Sigelhearwan. [10], Tolkien arrived at the idea of Harad, a hot Southern land, through his philological work. [27] She similarly observes that Tjeder had failed to notice Tolkien's "concerted effort" to change the Western European "paradigm" that speakers of supposedly superior languages were "ethnically superior". [T 1], The elves named the land and its people Haradwaith, "South-folk", from the Sindarin harad, meaning "south", and gwaith, meaning "people".