Posted: June 14, 1999 at 00:30:20: by Michael Martinez
: Are there any mentionings outside of LOTR and the hobbit of
: them? And does anybody know what happened to the Great Mumak? I
: know that in the Two Towers Tolkien said that perhaps it
: traveled all the way to the Anduin and then swept out to see,
: or possibly captured or killed by some Men of Gondor. And were
: the Haradrim really blacked-skinned? Or were they more akin to
: Africans?I can't think of any references right now. This is my last post here for the evening. "Haradrim" just means "peoples of the south", and does not refer to any one race or tribe. The only black-skinned men we encounter in THE LORD OF THE RINGS are (what appear to be) a fantasy race devised by Tolkien which merit only two mentions in "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields". These are the "black men like half-trolls with white eyes and red tongues", later called "Troll-men". The other Haradrim appear to be much lighter-skinned (although we only get a close-up view of one, Sam's southron, who was brown-skinned, perhaps like someone from India or the Middle East). I don't know anything more about the Mumak. I guess it's up to the reader to decide for him/herself what happened to it.
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