Concerning the Easterlings - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lord of Angmar · 01-02-2004, 11:31 PM

Welcome to the Downs, Turin. Great handle.<P>As you'll find from the "Movies" forum, people think that Peter Jackson's movies got a lot of things wrong. A thread like this should probably go there. As for your question about who the Easterlings were, they were a race of Men from the unknown East of Middle-earth, who often warred with the Free People (that is, the "good guys") of Middle-earth, dating back to the treachery of Ulfang in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. In the Third Age they were mercernaries for the war machine of Sauron.

01-02-2004, 11:31 PM	#2
Lord of Angmar Tyrannus Incorporalis Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the North Posts: 833	Welcome to the Downs, Turin. Great handle.<P>As you'll find from the "Movies" forum, people think that Peter Jackson's movies got a lot of things wrong. A thread like this should probably go there. As for your question about who the Easterlings were, they were a race of Men from the unknown East of Middle-earth, who often warred with the Free People (that is, the "good guys") of Middle-earth, dating back to the treachery of Ulfang in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. In the Third Age they were mercernaries for the war machine of Sauron. __________________ ...where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defence.