what was happening there?
What was happening there?
Elijah Ortiz
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Josiah Taylor
Something. What it was, ain’t exactly clear.
Wyatt Adams
The Battle Of Minhirath And Enedwaith
Landon Fisher
White Mountains were oppresing poor Enedwaithers
Chase Rogers
Eriador was essentially a desolate waste apart from the shire and Bree land. Literally nothing is known about Enedwaith and even less about Miniraith
Brody Robinson
Those two regions are inhabited by the survivors of the House of Haleth, after the First Age, some have left for Numenor, the others have remained, and have recovered their numbers in those two regions beneath Eriador, but due to their position between the might of Sauron and the Eldar and the Numenoreans, they were caught in the crossfire, most died as a result, and many were killed by the Great Plague.
Also, at Sarn Ford, I believe, some Numenorean admiral/general utterly humiliated Sauron in a decisive battle.
Chase Thomas
absolutely nothing, you may as well be asking what's happening right now in Atlantis. Their happenings already happened thousands of years before, most of Eriador and Enedwaith/Minhiriath in particular are post apocalyptic wasteland.
When the Numenorean ship-kings first arrived they gave the natives the full colonial treatment (slavery and massacres) and tore down the forests to build their great fleets, when Numenor was destroyed the resulting tidal waves wrecked their legacy and whatever was left was caught up and ruined during Sauroin's first invasion during the sack of Eregion, any chance at recovery was taken away when the Witch-King finished off Arnor and the last survivors either fled north or secluded themselves in isolated coastal inlets.
Like I said, post-apocalyptic. Same thing goes for Rhovanion, source: read the fucking Silmarillion or at least skim the online wiki version.
Evan Thompson
They didn't enslave them or exterminate them, the natives merely retreated deeper into their forests, only the Numenoreans who've founded colonies along the southern continent were slavers.
Josiah Green
Anything you wish
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Joseph King
The early explorers didn't understand their language (Haladin, and unrelated to their own Adunaic which was descended from the other two main human language branches) and wrongly assumed they were kin of the hated Easterlings who had betrayed and subjugated their ancestors in the 1st age because they shared a swarthy appearance (fantastic racism lol). They were promptly ignored but later as Numenor needed wood for their fuckhuge ships conflict was provoked because as it turns out environmental destruction on a mass scale is great for starting wars, at one Point Lond Daer was the biggest Numenorean colony north of Umbar and irt's economy was based entirely on logging forests and capturing Haladin. this and other occurrences (such as being driven from Calenardhon) is why Dunlendings and other middle-men hate Gondorians.
Didn't get them all because some escaped/retreated, but who do you think was being sacrificed en-masse within Morgoth's temple?
Numenor was an even greater evil empire than Mordor ever was towards it's final days.
Leo Lopez
People like Dunlendings, or rather the druedain used to live in both regions but have died out or been reduced to nearly that level by the events of LOTR
I dont know about that, I do know the rangers failed to stop the Nazgul entering the shire from that ford iirc.
Carter Ross
all know is there was a man with a gun over there
Carson Reed
Even the colonies that were inhabited and founded by the Faithful were practicing slavery?
John Hernandez
Lond Daer is older than Pelargir and the Faithful were always a tiny minority outside of the future Gondor. The Dunedain must face yup to their history and pay reparations for centuries of evil.
Dylan Davis
I know the people of Beor were outnumbered by the people of Hador, but wasn't an entire part of Numenor inhabited by the Faithful (house of Beor)?
Michael Garcia
Theres no guns in middle earth
Christopher Diaz
There are early firethrowers in Rhun.
Andrew Martinez
Andustar, one of the five lordships and the one closest to Valinor was their home but they were deported and subsequently steadily spread out and whittled away/genocided, by the end there were only 9 ships worth of them left to escape.
Numenoreans were le 56% when it came to lineage and they largely merged into one apart from the ruling caste which maintained specialness, before they returned to Middle-Earth as explorers and later as conquerors they'd had 1000's of years to homogenize which is why they dodn't recognize the Haladin as kinsmen, the Haladin had no knowledge of anything Elvish and were misidentified as servants of darkness.
Josiah Flores
decrepit and abandoned numenorean cities
a few rangers here and there
Owen Gray
Lack of tax policy
Brayden Roberts
Yes, but when they landed to Middle Earth, they had literal tens of thousands of soldiers (Numenoreans), not including women, children and those who weren't warriors and soldiers. How big were those ships on which they've escaped?
Eli Jones
Depending on how you want to interpret the text (it's not exactly clear and it can mean whatever you want) either the Numenoreans really did have aircraft carrier sized steampunk airships or they were being met en route by people who'd already fled/had settled.
A lot of the little inconsistencies get hand waved with the whole"it's not a story, it's a fantasy history!".
Michael Baker
Now that you've mentioned it, it was both, massive ships, and colonies of already settled Faithful (Beor), which would explain and justify their massive numbers.
Jordan Baker
Shadow of war reconnect orcs as chaos and not strictly evil, so maybe they were chilling