In the Unfinished Tales it says that the Variags were fierce tribesmen living on the high-land plataue of Khand. They were men akin to easterlings and people further south in the Harad. during the war of the ring they allied themselves with Sauron and fought gondor as they did when the Wainraiders attacked Gondor 18th century of the third age. I have always imagined the variags as simmilar to Mongols or Arabs.
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'In this bloody dawn I will wash my sword, to call the spirit of vengeance, to deny my wisdom for anger, to break the scream of the silent foe and to be the Son of Doom.'
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