What is it?

[Samwise]

On another thread here, where the Name/Race/Whatever generator was being used, I put several things in just for fun, and got some interesting answers. Trouble is, I don't know WHAT these things are that the generator said my entries were! smilies/frown.gif Can someone tell me?
Mumak (with a little "thingy" above the u)
Meara
Olog-Hai
Bounder
Haradim

Thanks a bunch! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Vardadurwen]

Isn't a "Meara" a very special and powerful type of horse? Shadowfax was a meara, wasn't he?...correct me if I'm wrong...

But that's all I got, sorry.

[Iarwain]

Mumak- an Oliphaunt

Meara- I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure It's a horse of the same breed as Shadowfax.

Haradrim- someone from Harad

Bounder- Someone who protects the borders of the shire? maybe?

[Samwise]

Thank you, all of those sound feasable to me... smilies/wink.gif

[The Saucepan Man]

Samwise,

Mumaks: War Oliphaunts of the Southrons - men of the South who served Sauron in the War of the Ring (I think that this would include the Haradrim - see below)

Meara: I don't know exactly, but they are some kind of wonder horse, and Shadowfax was one (as was Champion smilies/biggrin.gif ).

Olog-Hai: Uber-trolls bred for war (as Uruk-Hai were uber-orcs). I think they were at the battle before the Black Gate. There is a great article on whether they were subject to the same "turn-to-stone-in-sunlight" rule as your common or garden troll in the Articles section of this site.

Bounder: A sort of ad hoc militia in the Shire employed to "beat the bound", ie patrol the borders.

Haradim: The men of Harad (and Far Harad?) to the South, who served Sauron in the War of the Ring.

Hope that helps. smilies/smile.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tar-Palantir]

Bounders were hobbits whose job it was to patrol the boundaries of the Shire.

The Olog-hai were bred in Mordor by Sauron, they were an attempt to create immensely strong creatures that were intelligent enough to be used as troops. Ordinary Trolls were unsuitable - strong but stupid - and so, according to rumour, they were interbred with the variags, a cruel mannish race. The result were the Olog-hai of Mordor; cunnig and immune to the effects of sunlight and smaller than other Trolls, they were sometimes mistaken for huge orcs by enemy soldiers.

[ January 16, 2003: Message edited by: Tar-Palantir ]

[Samwise]

Wow! Thank you, all. Hm. One of the name generator things said I was a scholarly
Meara. So, then, a horse of Shadowfax's caliber that read or studied? smilies/confused.gif

[ January 16, 2003: Message edited by: Samwise ]