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Originally Posted by Rhun charioteer
Wasn't Khand south of Rhun, east of Harad, and southwest of Mordor?
So I imagine the Variags were ethnically distinct from the easterlings and Haradrim.
Since I always imagined Khand to be dry scrub and grassland-I figure the Variags were axe wielding Mongol/Viking/Turkic people or something like that.
Maybe Magyars?
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Not Magyars. Here is a nice bit of research here:
http://blog.tolkien-studies.com/2010...iags-of-khand/
It contains both conjecture on the word "Variag" as well as "Khand". I say conjecture because actual mention of the terms is scant in Tolkien's own writing.