Rhûn

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Rhûn is a large region of eastern Middle-earth.

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Rhûn is a name used for all lands lying east Rhovanion, around and beyond the inland Sea of Rhûn, from where many attacks on Gondor and its allies came during the Third Age.

We know almost nothing of the lands of beyond the great Sea of Rhûn that stood on its borders with the western lands. Even Gandalf had never explored there, and though Aragorn had travelled there, we have no report of his doings.

Of its ancient geography we can glean a little from the Silmarillion; far beyond the Sea of Rhûn was another inland sea, the Sea of Helcar, and beyond that a range of red mountains known as the Orocarni. Somewhere in the lost east, too, lay Cuiviénen and Hildórien, where Elves and Men first awoke: all the Children of Ilúvatar could trace their ancestries back to the eastward regions of Middle-earth.

Rhûn was the domain of the Easterlings, Men of Darkness who were ready to follow both the Dark Lords and fought as their allies in war. These lands, too, were peopled by lost Elves, Avari and Úmanyar, and by four of the seven clans of the Dwarves.

During the Third Age, Rhûn was visited by three Wizards; Saruman, Alatar and Pallando, and though Saruman returned into the west, the two Blue Wizards remained. Sauron himself journeyed into the eastward lands, in hiding from the White Council during the centuries known in the west as the Watchful Peace.

Dorwinion lay in Rhûn, and the Easterlings of the Balchoth and Wainriders lived there.

Rhûn was conquered by Gondor twice: under the Kings Rómendacil I and Rómendacil II, but the Númenóreans never had full control over it.

Rhûn was finally subdued in the Fourth Age under King Elessar and his son Eldarion.

Rhûn was, specially during the second age, also a land where trade was a mainly part of their culture. - Specially around the northern regions 'round of the Sea of Rhûn, where mainly wine and tobacco was produced and traded through out Middle-Earth.

Tolkein was probably inspired by China or Mongolia for imagine Rhûn. This is proved by the fact that, in the Games Workshop Lotr wargame and the video-game Battle for the Middle Earth, we can see yurts and padoges in the maps wich represent Rhûn.

Places of Middle Earth and Arda Middle Earth Locations: Provinces/Regions: Dunland | Ithilien | Rohan | Arnor | Ettenmoors | Gondor | Minhiriath | Rhûn | The Shire | Mordor | Harad | Forochel Forests & Mountains: Erebor | Fangorn forest | High Pass | Iron Hills | Lórien | Redhorn Pass | Mount Doom | Tower Hills | Mirkwood | Weather Hills City/Fortifications: Isengard | Barad-dûr | Minas Morgul | Rivendell | Dol Guldur | Helm's Deep | Minas Tirith | Osgiliath | Udûn | Annúminas | Fornost | Umbar | Bree Miscellaneous: Cair Andros | Gap of Rohan | Grey Havens | Buckland | Enedwaith | Dagorlad | Dead Marshes | Fords of Isen | Weathertop | Argonath The rest of Arda: Valinor | Númenor | Dark Land | Aman | Tol Eressëa

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