Ok this is just my mind's eye working here, but when I read through the Lord of the Rings the first time so many years ago, I pictured Variags of Khand as similar to the Ghurkas from the Himilayans. A rather elite yet vicious & brutal brigade of military men from Khand. They also were in the army of Sauron that attacked Gondor in TA 1944 when the Wainrider Easterlings also attacked Gondor in the northern part of Ithilien.
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When Elendil fell, Isildur departed to take up the high kingship of his father, and committed the rule of the south in like manner to the son of his brother. He did not relinquish his royalty in Gondor, nor intend that the realm of Elendil should be divided forever.
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