Posted: January 28, 2000 at 17:07:58: by Gildor
>>>Is it possible they were Variags? (men out of Khand). I had suggested that before, but never got much feedback. We never got physical descriptions of the Variags, so they could have been short and broad and bearded.
And the fact that the scouts did not recognize them helps the theory. The soldiers of Gondor knew Easterlings and Southrons by sight, as they had had wars with them for many generations. But by the WotR, I believe it had been over a thousand years since the Variags fought Gondor (at least it was a thousand years since it was last recorded). So perhaps, from a distance and with the mist a darkness, the scouts could not identify them, as they had not seen Variags before. During the Battle of the Pellennor Fields, they could be identified as Variags because they were in direct fighting with them, and could see their flags and stuff like that. I think there is a good chance that they are simply Variags.
- Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod
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