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Originally Posted by Raynor
Well, I don't see a problem in that. But the problem I do see is that I was reffering to the woses there, and you are using that statement in refference to the dunlendings. Am I correct in my guess that you are confusing woses with dunlendings?
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I think things may have got confused - which can happen when one is taking part in a three handed conversation. I was focussing on the Dunlendings, Lal was focussing on the Woses, & I think you were fighting a battle on two sides.
That said, I don't see that the Dunlendings were a 'civilised' culture - it seems to me that they were living a very basic existence, & Eomer's confounding them (or even just their war cries) with animals does not speak to their being an enemy on the cultural or technological level of the Rohirrim. Hence it would seem that either they were originally a 'higher culture' which had descended into barbarism, or they never attained the level of civilisation even of the Rohirrim .
I think that what we know of the Dunlendigs & their history leads towards the latter assumption.