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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. It's where your interests connect you with your people. When not part of Gondor, its system of government was no doubt tyrannical, but it may also have been a duumvirate: Black Númenórean and Corsair Lords are paired when mentioned; Herumor/Fuinur for example, and later Angamaitë/Sangahyando.

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Taking them as spear support for Reavers help increase their damage output but be warned, given reavers' low defence, they're likely to die to bows and leave your poor spear bois alone - … 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. were cruel slavers who often raided the coasts of Belfalas and Anfalas in Gondor: in TA 2746 for example, Amrothos, the 15th Prince of Dol Amroth fell defending Dol-en-Ernil against them.

[T 15] 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.
Deck and card popularity data is kindly supplied by RingsDB. Key publications included the setting books Umbar: Haven of the Corsairs (1982),[38] Far Harad (1988),[39] and Greater Harad (1990),[40] as well as the adventure books Warlords of the Desert (1989),[41] Forest of Tears (1989),[42] and Hazards of the Harad Wood (1990). The border with Mordor runs along the southern Mountains of Shadow. There are large elephants known as mûmakil, influenced by the zoologist Georges Cuvier's 1796 discovery of bones and palaeolithic drawings of mammoths. Two Black Númenórean lords, Herumor and Fuinur, were probably from Umbar, as at the end of Second Age they became very powerful amongst the Haradrim, a neighbouring people. This website is not produced, endorsed, supported, or affiliated with Fantasy Flight Games. Harad, and assailed the coasts of Gondor in great force; and the enemy made many landings, even as far north as the mouth of the Isen. Umbar's fleet was largely destroyed 29 years later, when Thorongil (Aragorn Elessar, as it later turned out) in the service of the Steward of Gondor Ecthelion II led a taskforce south and burned them, killing the Captain of the Haven in the process. [12], Tolkien arrived at the idea of Harad, a hot Southern land, through his philological work.

Minardil's death, his great-grand nephew succeeded in briefly "[T 19]) in Aftonbladet as "stereotypical and reflective of colonial attitudes". Umbar remained at war with Gondor This 'great power' availed the Men of Harad little, however, for Sauron to Ar-Pharazôn, and so served as a proud reminder of the might of 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". Over the centuries many Haradrim fall under Sauron's dominion, and to "them Sauron was both king and god, and they feared him exceedingly". [T 1], The elves named the land and its people Haradwaith, "South-folk", from the Sindarin harad, meaning "south", and gwaith, meaning "people". Card scans thanks to GeckoTH, Mr. Underhill, Leara & Björn, Lepcis Magna, and the Lord of the Rings LCG Community. Haradrim, if not even merely Haradrim themselves.

Harad's west coast (the nearest to Gondor) is washed by the Great Sea, the western ocean of Middle-earth. Quest Cards. Gondors power, however, eclipsed that of Umbar as the Third Age progressed, and in TA 933 Gondor's King Eärnil I captured Umbar in a surprise attack, although this was "at great cost.". [19], 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. In J. R. R. Tolkien's heroic romance The Lord of the Rings, Harad is the immense land south of Gondor and Mordor.Its main port is Umbar, the base of the Corsairs of Umbar whose ships serve as the Dark Lord Sauron's fleet. He deduced that this word referred to some kind of soot-black fire demon before it was applied to the Aethiopians. In J. R. R. Tolkien's heroic romance The Lord of the Rings, Harad is the immense land south of Gondor and Mordor. Straubhaar writes that "a polycultured, polylingual world is absolutely central"[27] to Middle-earth, and that readers and filmgoers will easily see that. shore. him fealty. [32], 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. 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". of 'Corsairs of Umbar', who must have been closely related to the [T 2] Aragorn briefly describes his journeys in the land as being in "Harad where the stars are strange". Umbar appeared on the bottom edge of the maps found in earlier editions of Lord of the Rings, but it is absent from modern editions, which regrettably map a slightly smaller area of Middle-earth. The hobbits called the area the Sunlands, and the people Swertings. 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. exceedingly great, he began to assail the strong places of the 2 - Flee the City 1 1 1. Then he sent

Its people are the dark-skinned Haradrim or Southrons; their warriors wear scarlet and gold, and are armed with swords and round shields; some ride gigantic elephants called mûmakil. [10][21] With his "Southrons" from Harad, Tolkien had – in the view of John Magoun, writing in the J.R.R. Gondor conquered Umbar multiple times, but lost it again during its decline. For seven days he journeyed with banner and trumpet. [T 3] Tolkien confirmed that this meant that Aragorn had traveled "some distance into the southern hemisphere" in Harad. hands of the Númenóreans, in essence a Realm in Exile alongside Arnor and Gondor. The Old English Biblical poem Exodus in the tenth-century Codex Junius 11 includes a passage that caught Tolkien's attention:[13], Tolkien was interested in particular in the Old English word used for "Aethiopians": it was Sigelwara, or in Tolkien's emendation Sigelhearwan. They are "ethnic others but not as ugly",[10] they have a rich culture and well-trained elephants. With the Fall of Barad-dûr, Umbar, weakened and defeated, finally lost its sovereignty and submitted to the crown of King Elessar. made many landings, even as far north as the mouth of the Isen. [19] 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.