Eastern

The Orientaux ( Easterlings ) are human people of the Ground of the Medium of J.R.R. Tolkien. Originating in the area of Rhûn, located at the North-East of the Mordor, they are combined and tributary of Sauron. They attacked regularly the Gondor during the Third Age, in particular at the time of the Guerre of the Ring.

History

First attacks

The first invasion of Gondor by the Eastern ones took place in 490 T.A. and was pushed back by the king Rómendacil I {{er}}, but he perishes into 541, always as a combatant the Eastern ones. His/her son Turambar pushed back them and conquered all the area ranging between the Anduin and the Mer of Rhûn in the south of the Black Forêt. Being populated too little, Gondor hardly preserved a long time these grounds, which remained however occupied by combined people, Northmen. However, part of these Nortmen was combined with Eastern, by lure of gain or conviction, and those started to occupy again the south of the Rhovanion. The regent Minalcar raised an large army and, in 1248, it drove out Eastern area. One did not hear any more of them during several centuries, until the arrival of the People-of-Carriages.

People-of-Carriages

The People-of-Carriages ( Wainriders ) were a branch of Eastern well better armed than the others, and which owed its name with the fact that they moved on board large carriages, and that their chiefs fought on board tanks. They badgered Gondor during nearly one century (1851 - 1944) and were overcome only with large-sorrow. In 1856, they overcame the king Narmacil II, which died at the time of the battle known as of the Plains, and Nortmen of Rhovanion were reduced in slavery by the Eastern ones. The successor of Narmacil, Calimehtar, benefitted from a revolt of Nortmen to overcome the People-of-Carriages on the plain of Dagorlad. Those took refuge beyond the sea of Rhûn to reorganize.

The People-of-Carriages were then combined to the inhabitants Khand, area in the south-east of the Mordor, who were to attack Gondor in the south while the Eastern ones would attack it in north. The king Ondoher, prevented by Forthwini, lord of Nortmen, divided his troops into two. He took the head of the army of north and entrusted that of the south to his cousin Eärnil. Ondoher was swept in front of the Morannon and he perishes, like his two sons Artamir and Faramir; and the People-of-Carriages took towards the south and stopped in Ithilien, where they established their camping and celebrated their victory. It was without taking into account the army of Eärnil which, going up south where it had been victorious, fell on the Eastern ones by surprised and destroys them (1944).

Balchoth

The War of the Ring

The role of the Blue Magi

In a text dating from the year of its death, J.R.R. Tolkien indicates that the Blue Mages parties in the east and whose one lost the trace played a big role in the history of the Third Age: by sowing the dissension among the Eastern ones, they would have prevented those linking and from submerging Gondor by their simple number.

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