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First of all, I didn't write these from scratch.
Aragorn • Arwen • Bill Ferny • Beregond • Bergil • Bilbo • Boromir • Celeborn • Denethor • Éomer • Éowyn • Elrond • Faramir • Fatty • Frodo • Galadriel • Gandalf • Gimli • Gollum • Gríma • Haldir • Halbarad • Imrahil • Legolas • Mouth of Sauron • Merry • Pippin • Quickbeam • Radagast • Sackville-Bagginses • Sam • Saruman • Sauron • Tom Bombadil • Treebeard • Witch-king
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[[ |thumb|The west of Middle-earth during the Third Age.]] The Lord of the Rings takes up the story about 60 years after the end of The Hobbit. It was first published in three volumes - The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. The main story is divided into six books (two for each volume), successively numbered by Roman numerals. There is also a Foreword and a Prologue in The Fellowship of the Ring and six Appendices at the end of The Return of the King.
The Foreword of the Second Edition includes a dedication to American fans and a statement that the book is not an allegory, as some of its readers had already supposed. The Prologue includes a few sections providing backstory on the identity and customs of Hobbits, and a brief synopsis of The Hobbit.
Book I in The Fellowship of the Ring begins with Bilbo's hundred-and-eleventh birthday party, and his subsequent disappearance using his magic ring. Leaving to journey once more, he left much of his belongings, including the ring, to his cousin and adoptive heir Frodo Baggins.
After seventeen years of investigating, their old friend Gandalf the Grey revealed that the ring was in fact the One Ring, the instrument of Sauron's power, which the Dark Lord had been searching for most of the Third Age, and which corrupted others with desire for it and the power it held.
Sauron sent the sinister Ringwraiths, in the guise of riders in black, to the Shire, Frodo's native land, in search of the Ring. Frodo escaped, with the help of his loyal gardener Samwise "Sam" Gamgee and three close friends, Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck, Peregrin "Pippin" Took, and Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger. While Fatty acted as a decoy for the Ringwraiths, Frodo and the others set off to take the Ring to the Elven haven of Rivendell. They were aided by the enigmatic Tom Bombadil, who saved them from Old Man Willow and took them in for a few days of feasting, rest, and counsel. At the town of Bree, Frodo's party was joined by a man called "Strider", who was revealed, in a letter left by Gandalf at the local inn for Frodo, to be Aragorn, the heir to the kingships of Gondor and Arnor, two great realms founded by the Númenórean exiles. Aragorn led the hobbits to Rivendell on Gandalf's request. However, Frodo was gravely wounded by the leader of the Ringwraiths at the hill of Weathertop. With the help of his companions and the Elf-lord Glorfindel, Frodo managed to enter Rivendell's borders by crossing the Ford of the river Bruinen. Here he engaged in a stand-off with the Ringwraiths, but they were swept away by an enchantment of the river when they entered its waters. The book ends with Frodo losing consciousness.
Book II in The Fellowship of the Ring reveals that Frodo managed to recover under the care of the Half-elven lord Elrond, master of Rivendell. The hobbits also learned that Sauron's forces can only be resisted if Aragorn took up his inheritance and fulfilled an ancient prophecy by wielding the sword Andúril, which had been forged anew from the shards of Narsil, the sword that cut the Ring from Sauron's finger in the Second Age. Frodo also meets Bilbo, now living in retirement, and sees Elrond's daughter Arwen, Aragorn's betrothed.
Later, much of the story's exposition is given during a high council, attended by representatives of the major races of Middle-earth; Elves, Dwarves, and Men, and presided over by Elrond. Gandalf told them of the emerging threat of Saruman, the leader of the Order of Wizards, who wanted the Ring for himself and had imprisoned him for a time in his stronghold Isengard. After pondering several choices, the Council decided that the only course of action that could save Middle-earth was to destroy the Ring by taking it to Mordor and casting it into Mount Doom, where it was forged.
Frodo volunteered for the task, and a "Fellowship of the Ring" was formed to aid him — which consisted of Frodo, his three Hobbit companions, Gandalf, Aragorn, Boromir of Gondor, Gimli the Dwarf, and Legolas the Elf. Their journey took them through plains and over mountains, and ultimately the Mines of Moria, where they were followed by the wretched creature Gollum, whom Bilbo had met in the Goblin-caves of the Misty Mountains years before. (The full tale of their meeting is told in The Hobbit.) Gollum long possessed the Ring before it passed to Bilbo. Earlier in Book I, Gandalf explained that Gollum belonged to a people "of hobbit-kind" before he came upon the Ring, which corrupted him. A slave to the Ring's evil power, Gollum desperately sought to regain his "Precious". As they proceeded through the Mines, Pippin unintentionally betrayed their presence and the party was attacked by Orcs. Gandalf battled a demon of fire and darkness, the Balrog, and fell into a deep chasm, apparently to his death. Escaping from Moria, the Fellowship, now led by Aragorn, went to the Elven realm of Lothlórien. Here, the Lady Galadriel showed Frodo and Sam visions of the past, present, and future. Frodo also perceived the Eye of Sauron, a metaphysical expression of Sauron himself, and Galadriel was tempted by the Ring. By the end of the first volume, after the Fellowship had travelled along the great River Anduin, Frodo decided to continue the trek to Mordor on his own, largely due to the Ring's growing influence on Boromir - who wanted the Ring for himself, and to use it against Sauron; however, the faithful Sam insisted on going with him.
The second volume, The Two Towers, deals with two parallel storylines in each of its books. Book III details the exploits of the remaining members of the Fellowship who aid the country of Rohan in its war against Saruman. At the start of the book, the Fellowship was further scattered. Merry and Pippin were captured by Sauron and Saruman's orcs, and Boromir was mortally wounded defending them. Aragorn and the others went off in pursuit of their captors, and so entered the land of Rohan, where Isengard was located.
The hobbits eventually managed to escape to Fangorn Forest after the Orc-band was attacked by horsemen of Rohan. There they met Treebeard, the eldest of a race of tree-like creatures called Ents. Treebeard was furious at Saruman for his Orcs were cutting down the trees in the vicinity. After a council that lasted three days, Treebeard persuaded his fellow Ents to attack Saruman's stronghold, and Merry and Pippin accompanied them.
Meanwhile, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli eventually found themselves in Fangorn Forest, still on the hobbits' trail. There they met Gandalf, who had returned as "Gandalf the White"; he had defeated the Balrog at the cost of his life, but had been sent back to Middle-earth, with enhanced powers, to aid the forces of good. Assuring them that the hobbits were safe, he then led them to the capital of Rohan, where he roused its king Théoden from inaction due to old age, depression and the deceptions of his counselor, Gríma, secretly an agent of Saruman. A subplot involving the king's niece Éowyn emerges; desiring glory for herself in battle, she falls in love with Aragorn.
Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli helped the people of Rohan defeat Saruman's armies at the Battle of the Hornburg, while Saruman himself was cornered by the Ents. The members of the Fellowship were reunited in the aftermath of the battle. After Saruman refused to repent of his folly, Gandalf cast him from the Order of Wizards.
Book IV tells of Frodo and Sam's exploits on the way to Mount Doom. They managed to capture and "tame" Gollum, who showed them a way to enter Mordor secretly (as opposed to the Black Gate), albeit through the dreaded valley of Minas Morgul. As their journey progressed, "Sméagol", Gollum's "good" personality, gradually began to resurface through Frodo's kindness; however, his "bad" personality Gollum continued to exist, and finally dominated due to Sam's suspicion. In the lands of Ithilien in Gondor, they met Boromir's brother Faramir, who in contrast rejected the opportunity to take the Ring for himself, understanding its implications. At the end of the volume, Gollum betrayed Frodo to the great spider, Shelob, and though he survived, he was captured by orcs. Meanwhile, Sauron launched an all-out military assault upon Middle-earth, with the Witch-king (leader of the Ringwraiths) leading a fell host from Minas Morgul into battle against Gondor, in the War of the Ring.
In the third volume, The Return of the King, the further adventures of Gandalf, Aragorn and company are related in the first book of the volume, while Frodo and Sam's are related in the second, as with The Two Towers.
As told in Book V, the Fellowship assisted in the final battles against the armies of Sauron, including the siege of the tower-city of Minas Tirith in Gondor and the climactic life-or-death battle before the Black Gate of Mordor, where the alliance of Gondor and Rohan fought desperately against Sauron's armies in order to distract him from the Ring, and hoped to gain time for Frodo to destroy it.
Gandalf took Pippin to Gondor's capital Minas Tirith, which soon fell under attack by Sauron. Its ruler, the Steward Denethor, refused to acknowledge Aragorn's claim to the throne; after Faramir was gravely wounded
In Book VI, Sam rescued Frodo from captivity. After much struggle, they finally reached Mount Doom itself, tailed by Gollum. However, the temptation of the Ring proved too great for Frodo and he claimed it for himself. Subsequently, Gollum struggled with him and managed to bite the Ring off. Crazed with triumph, Gollum slipped into the fires of the mountain, and the Ring was destroyed.
Thus, Sauron was banished from the world and his realm ended. Aragorn was crowned king and married Arwen, the daughter of Elrond. However, all was not over, for Saruman had managed to escape his captivity and enslave the Shire. Though he was overthrown by the Hobbits and the four heroes helped to restore order and beautify the land again, it was not the same Shire that they left. At the end, Frodo remained wounded in body and spirit and sailed west accompanied by Bilbo over the Sea to the Undying Lands, where he could find peace.
The Appendices contain much material concerning the timeline of the story, and information on the peoples and the languages of Middle-earth. Notably, Arwen, physically absent for much of the book, is dealt with in full here; her backstory and future with Aragorn are related.
According to Tolkien's timeline, the events depicted in the story occurred between Bilbo's announcement of his T.A. September 22, 3001 birthday party, and Sam's re-arrival to Bag End on T.A. October 6, 3021. Most of the events portrayed in the story occur in 3018 and 3019, with Frodo heading out from Bag End on T.A. September 23 3018, and the destruction of the Ring six months later on T.A. March 25 3019.
- For character information see: List of Middle-earth characters
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional prehistory of the world (Arda), Narsil was the sword of King Elendil of the Dúnedain, although in a later age it was reforged as Andúril. It appears in The Lord of the Rings and in Unfinished Tales.
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The sword was forged during the First Age by the Dwarf Telchar of Nogrod, a famous weaponsmith and artificer who also made the blade Angrist, which cut a Silmaril from the crown of Morgoth, and the Dragon-helm later used by Túrin Turambar.
The sword's name contains the elements nar and thil, "fire" and "white light" respectively in Quenya, referring to the Sun and Moon.
For whom Telchar originally made Narsil, as well as its early history, is unknown, as is its history prior to its possession by Elendil of Númenor.
One possibility is that like both Angrist and the Dragon-Helm, Narsil was first given to a prince of the Noldor, passing thence to Elros, one of the last of the three Noldorin Royal Houses: perhaps via Maglor, who cherished Elros as a son after briefly abducting him as a child.
In the Second Age, Narsil would then have been retained by Elros, Númenor's first king, and his direct heirs, until Silmariën was denied the throne because of Númenor's laws of primogeniture. In this case, Silmariën, who herself went on to found a new dynasty — the Lords of Andúnië — presumably came into possession of two of the most ancient Númenórean heirlooms, the Ring of Barahir and Narsil.
The other possibility is equally plausible, and circumstantial evidence for it can be found in The Silmarillion. Those few Númenóreans who continued to welcome the Eldar late into the Second Age led by Silmariën's descendants had been brought many gifts from Aman by their friends: perhaps one of these was Narsil.
The only certainty concerning the sword's history begins over two thousand years after Silmariën, when her distant descendant, Amandil, the last Lord of Andúnië, sent his son Elendil back to Middle-earth with Narsil towards the close of the Second Age, as he correctly guessed at Númenor's imminent destruction.
Elendil became thereafter a great lord, the first of the kings of Gondor and Arnor. He used Narsil in the War of the Last Alliance against Sauron. During the siege of Barad-dûr, Sauron was cornered, and was forced to fight himself. His body was slain by Elendil and Gil-galad, but they were also slain, and Narsil broke beneath Elendil. Elendil's son and heir Isildur then used the hilt-shard of the sword to cut the One Ring from the hand of Sauron, making his spirit flee and vanquishing him for that time. Although his body was broken and power removed, Sauron's spirit survived when Isildur claimed the One Ring for his own.
Isildur took the shards home with him. Shortly before Isildur was killed in the second year of the Third Age in the disaster at the Gladden Fields, the shards of Narsil were rescued by Ohtar, squire of Isildur. He took them to Imladris, where Isildur's youngest son Valandil was fostered.
The Shards of Narsil became one of the heirlooms of the Kings of Arnor, and after the Northern Kingdom was destroyed they remained an heirloom of the Rangers of the North. The sword was reforged in Rivendell in 3019 T.A. during the War of the Ring, in celebration of the rediscovery and capture of the Ring with which it had become associated as its symbolic antithesis.
Thereafter it was renamed Andúril, (Sindarin for "Flame of the West"), by Aragorn, the heir of Isildur. He carried the sword during his journey south as one of the Fellowship of the Ring, and it featured prominently at several points in the story, where it was sometimes referred to as the Sword that was Broken or The Sword Reforged.
Boromir, son of the Steward of Gondor, travelled to Rivendell in time for the Council of Elrond because of the prophetic dream of his brother Faramir, in which he was told to "seek for the Sword that was broken". Aragorn often uses the sword to help establish his credentials and it also enables him to gain command over the army of the Dead Men of Dunharrow, cursed to a living death, who help Aragorn to defeat the Corsairs of Umbar during the siege of Minas Tirith.
Narsil (broken and reforged as Andúril) acts as a symbol of the kingship of Arnor and Gondor, and by extension, the stewardship of law over evil. As the Chieftain of the Rangers of the North, Aragorn is the heir to the fragments of the ancient sword. The reforging of the broken sword into Andúril prior to the Fellowship of the Ring leaving Rivendell is one of many important prophesied events leading up to the downfall of Sauron and the restoration of the line of Elendil as kings of Arnor and Gondor.
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[1] Some passages in Tolkien's writings imply or indicate that Narsil/Andúril glowed, similar to Sting and Glamdring.
In The Lord of the Rings, there
Thus Narsil came in due time to the hand of Valandil, Isildur's heir, in Imladris; but the blade was broken and its light extinguished, and it was not forged anew.[1]
The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and the rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, and its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.[2]
But even as the orc flung down the truncheon and swept out his scimitar, Andúril came down upon his helm. There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.[3]
Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out.[4]
Charging from the side, they hurled themselves upon the wild men. Andúril rose and fell, gleaming with white fire. A shout went up from wall and tower: "Andúril! Andúril goes to war. The Blade that was Broken shines again!"... ...Three times Aragorn and Éomer rallied them, and three times Andúril flamed in a desperate charge that drove the enemy from the wall[5]
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In the motion pictures directed by Peter Jackson, Narsil was not broken in two but in several parts (which were kept at Rivendell), and is not reforged into Andúril until the third film, when Arwen persuades Elrond to have elven smiths reforge it from the shards and bring to Aragorn. In the books, he actually wears the broken blade and shows it to the Hobbits when they meet at the Prancing Pony in Bree, and its reforging prior to the departure of the Fellowship is a decisive move toward kingship. According to John Howe, it is designed with a hollow pommel.
Aragorn holds a reverence for Andúril which is shown best in the original The Two Towers, and is not shown in its film version. When asked by Háma to disarm outside Meduseld, he is very reluctant, saying that normally he would give up his weapon "if I bore now any sword but Andúril". Even after giving in to Théoden's order, he commands Háma not to let anybody else touch it, upon pain of death (The Two Towers, The King of the Golden Hall). It is omitted from the film on the grace that the sword Aragorn surrenders there was not Andúril. However, the movie version of The Fellowship of the Ring does include a scene of Aragorn reverently placing the hilt of Narsil back into the display — after Boromir knocks it from its podium onto the floor.
In The Two Towers, it is written that Aragorn uses Andúril with a shield from Théoden's armoury during the Battle of the Hornburg. In The Fellowship of the Ring it is also stated that his sword was similar to Boromir's, who uses his with a shield consistently. This would suggest that it was a single-hand sword rather than the two-handed longsword depicted in the films.
The runes on the blade read "Narsil essenya, macil meletya, telchar carnéron navrotessë," translating to "Narsil is my name, a mighty sword, Telchar made me in Nogrod." While Tolkien writes that there were runes engraved on the blade, this inscription is an invention of the filmmakers.
The Eye of Sauron is part of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy legendarium.
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During the events of The Lord of the Rings, the primary antagonist Sauron controlled his minions from within the Dark Tower, Barad-dûr, and thus he was never physically seen by the main characters. However, he did sometimes confront them from a distance, and in those cases he was often perceived as an "Eye".
The most notable example was Frodo's vision in the Mirror of Galadriel:
"The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat's, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing."
In the book, there are many other instances where Sauron was referred to as an Eye - which have led some such as Peter Jackson to assume that it was his physical form. However, a careful reading shows that Sauron had a humanoid physical form.
In The Two Towers, Gollum states that Sauron has hands:
"It was Isildur who cut the finger off the enemy [said Frodo]. Yes, he has only four on the Black Hand, but they are enough,' said Gollum shuddering."[7]
it seems most likely that the "Eye" is a reflection of his piercing mind or will.
It certainly does not describe his physical form, as the Akallabêth says that "the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure" even before his body was destroyed in the War of the Last Alliance.[8]
This concept of the Eye is supported by a similar comment about Morgoth in Morgoth's Ring, part of The History of Middle-earth:
"...Morgoth held the Orcs in dire thraldom; for in their corruption they had lost almost all possibility of resisting the domination of his will. So great indeed did its pressure upon them become ere Angband fell that, if he turned his thought towards them, they were conscious of his 'eye' wherever they might be." (Morgoth's Ring, "Myths Transformed", Text X)
Tolkien wrote that Morgoth had a huge but humanoid form during the First Age, so "eye" here clearly refers to his will. The similarity between this description and the many references to Sauron's "Eye" is striking, which makes the true meaning of the term clear.
Tolkien clearly states in one of his letters that "The form that he took was that of a man of more than human stature, but not gigantic."[9]
Despite the non-physical but metaphysical nature of the Eye, it was Sauron's primary representation in the outside world. Sauron's Orcs use the sign of the Eye when they roam the Earth, because he does not "permit [his name] to be spelt or spoken" (according to Aragorn; a notable exception was the Mouth of Sauron). Also, the Lord of the Nazgûl threatens Éowyn with torture before the Lidless Eye at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
[edit] The Eye of Sauron in Peter Jackson's movies
In Peter Jackson's movies, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Jackson envisions Sauron as being a spirit-like being who cannot yet take bodily form. Sauron's only physical presence is as a giant disembodied red flaming eye, seen in all three movies as floating on top of Barad-dûr, suspended by its twin parapets (both the tower and the Eye are vaguely seen together in a vision of Frodo's in the first film). This differs substantially from the situation in the books as described above, and interviews with Jackson may imply that the difference is based on an honest misreading of Tolkien's intent, as Jackson repeatedly refers to Sauron as "just a giant floating eyeball". However, Sauron's physical form appears in a palantír in the Extended Edition of Return of the King; this form is apparently identical to Sauron's body in the Second Age, and may or may not indicate that he has reincarnated himself by this point.
The Eye is "constantly moving", seeking out all that moves in Sauron's domain of Mordor. The effect of the Eye in Mordor is seen as a red beam that moves across the land, forever probing. It also seems to be visible to Frodo (and to see him in turn) any time that he is wearing the Ring. The Eye is referred to as having the capability to "see all", although that must be meant as a term of fear and not literally; Sauron is not aware of all events that occur in Middle-earth, because he can only observe a single location at a time, rather like a lighthouse scanning the seas. Some Tolkien fans dislike this "lighthouse of Mordor" interpretation (with the Eye shining a ray of light while searching for the One Ring), which showed itself in full in the third movie.
Pippin had a brief and frightening encounter with the Eye, after gazing into the palantír of Orthanc.
One of scenes considered, but later changed, for The Return of the King, was one where Sauron would appear at the battle before the Black Gate, and fight Aragorn. He would appear first in his Second Age guise of Annatar, transforming to the armored figure seen in the Last Alliance flashbacks only after Aragorn had finally rejected Sauron's offers of alliance. Subsequently, Sauron was replaced by a computer-generated troll to fight Aragorn.
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Fomalhaut, the "Lonely Star of Autumn" and the brightest star of the Piscis Austrinus star constellation, features a disk of dust that gives it an almost uncanny resemblance to the Eye of Sauron as depicted by Jackson.
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[edit] Old South Road
The Old South Road is the longest road in J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional realm of Middle-earth. It ran from the lost realm of Arnor in the north to Minas Tirith in the south. In the early Third Age, the road served as the main linkage between Gondor and the Numenorean realm in exile, Arnor. The road was the lifeline between the two kingdoms, and existed well throughout Tolkien's legendarium.
The road begins at Fornost Erain in the north, the King's Norbury and ancient capital of Arnor. From there the road runs 100 Numenorean miles south to the ancient crossroads of the Great East Road at Bree. Below Bree, the road becomes known as the Greenway as it is overgrown with grass due to its waning use in the Third Age. The road passes through the Andrath and meets up with the road out of Shire's Southfarthing from Sarn Ford. It then runs southeast through the desolate wastes of Minhiriath to the ruined city of Tharbad on the Greyflood. At Tharbad the road crosses the Greyflood along a series of causeways and a massive stone bridge over the river. From Tharbad, the road continues southeast through the deserted land of Enedwaith and enters Dunland just west of the Misty Mountains. In southern Dunland, the road turns due east and crosses the Fords of Isen and enters the Gap of Rohan between the Ered Nimrais and Hithaeglir. Upon crossing the River Isen, the road enters the Kingdom of Rohan and becomes known as the West Road. The road then travels westward slowly sloping south along the northern edge of the Ered Nimrais through Edoras and entering the Kingdom of Gondor by crossing the Mering Stream. From the border with Gondor the road continues to the end of the Ered Nimrais to Minas Tirith. From Minas Tirith the road turns due east to Osgiliath where it once crossed Anduin via a great stone bridge. From Osgiliath, the road continues across Ithilien and ends at Minas Ithil, which by the end of the Third Age had become known as Minas Morgul. By the end of the War of the Ring, there were plans in place by King Elessar to restore the ancient royal road.
The road is specifically mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, when describing shipments of pipe-weed from the Shire's Southfarthing to Isengard. Saruman's ruffians also used the road to reach the Shire, as did he and Grima Wormtongue just before the Battle of Bywater.
Boromir is also mentioned as having used the road, traveling from Minas Tirith to Rivendell. He lost his horse at Tharbad's broken bridge. The Nazgul also used the road when they traveled north in search of the One Ring.
[edit] Tribelands of Haradwaith
In the lands of Haradwaith there are many tribes constantly at war. Each tribe is adapted to where it lives, though some may be nomadic.
The tribes are mainly centered around certain realms of Haradwaith (see Harad). In the lands of Near Harad, Pelargir,and Harandor, the tribes are more normal, being nomadic or simply living in cities.
In Khand, the men are varied, though most are nomadic or bear the characteristics of their king.
In Umbar, the men are city-people, or more warlike, riding in the fleets of Dalamyr and are more accustomed to the seas.
The tribesmen of Far Harad are very different. In Kârna and Badharkân the men are made to live in the forests, though the men of Badharkân are housed in a great city-fortess, whereas the men of Kârna live in a ruined city. Also, more nomadic men of the mountains live in Hidâr and guards are placed along the Harad road.
Lastly, the men of the Nâfarat are all nomadic, living in encampments at Dhâran-sar, Abrakân, and Gadîrkarn, though the men of Dhâran-sar may roam the mountains.
