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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