![]() ![]() Tolkien Encyclopedia that Faramir, son of the Steward of Gondor, makes an "arrogant" speech, of which he later "has cause to repent", classifying the types of Men as seen by the Men of Númenórean origin at the end of the Third Age she notes, too, that his taxonomy is probably not to be taken at face value. Other human adversaries include the Black Númenóreans, good men gone wrong and the Corsairs of Umbar, rebels of Gondor. Their name is from Russian: Варяги ( Variag), meaning the Varangians, Viking or other Germanic warriors who served as mercenaries. The Variags of Khand formed a third but smaller group, who appear as vassals of Mordor in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Tolkien describes them as "slant-eyed" they ride horses or wagons, leading to the name "wain-riders". The Easterlings lived in Rhûn, the vast eastern region of Middle-earth they fought in the armies of Morgoth and Sauron. ![]() Tolkien describes them as "swart", meaning "dark-skinned". The Haradrim or Southrons were hostile to Gondor, and used elephants in war. The main human adversaries in The Lord of the Rings are the Haradrim and the Easterlings. The Haradrim used battle-elephants, as Pyrrhus of Epirus did. ![]() However, others note that Tolkien was strongly anti-racist in real life. By the Fourth Age, Middle-earth is peopled with Men, and indeed Tolkien intended it to represent the real world in the distant past.Ĭommentators have questioned Tolkien's attitude to race, given that good peoples are white and live in the West, while enemies may be dark and live in the East and South. It becomes clear that, except for Men, all the peoples of Middle-earth are dwindling and fading: the Elves are leaving, and the Ents are childless. Tolkien uses the two Men in the Fellowship created to destroy the Ring, Aragorn and the warrior Boromir, to show the effects of opposite reactions to that temptation. The weakness of Men, The Lord of the Rings asserts, is the desire for power the One Ring promises enormous power, but is both evil and addictive. Scholars have identified real-world analogues for each of the varied races of Men, whether from medieval times or classical antiquity. Where the Hobbits stand for simple, earthbound, comfort-loving people, Men are far more varied, from petty villains and slow-witted publicans to the gentle warrior Faramir and the genuinely heroic Aragorn Tolkien had wanted to create a heroic romance suitable for the modern age. ![]() This appears throughout, but is the central theme of an appendix, " The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen". Tolkien uses the Men of Middle-earth, interacting with immortal Elves, to explore a variety of themes in The Lord of the Rings, especially death and immortality. Along with Ents and Dwarves, these are the "free peoples" of Middle-earth, differing from the enslaved peoples such as Orcs. Men are described as the second or younger people, created after the Elves, and differing from them in being mortal. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, Man and Men denote humans, whether male or female, in contrast to Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and other humanoid races. ![]()
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