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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dlsharrock" data-source="post: 4145913" data-attributes="member: 55833">By which you mean a wandering Beorning, or a disenfranchised oaf from Rhun? (by oaf I'm painting the picture of a luggish type human of Conanish type, probably fleeing the destruction of his small-village settlement and the Wainriders in Rhun)? The only true barbarians in the Middle-Earth sense within this district are the Vikingish chariot-driving Wainriders. Other barbarian races include the Mumakil riding Southron (featured in the Battle of Pelennor Fields when the elephant-like Mumakil decimated Theoden's riders) or Haradrim as Gondor Men call them, and also the Variags of Khand to the southeast of Mordor. There are also Black Numenors and Corsairs in the far south of Umbar, survivors of the destruction of Numenor who sailed to the city port of Umbar at the end of the Second Age with the intention of contesting Sauron, but who fell under his spell, as Men were wont to do in those days (edit: and, I forgot to add, the rebellious Gondor Men of the kin-strife in the 14th century who were throne out of the Kingdom and who subsequently seized control of Umbar, though I never really considered them barbarians). That's the barbarians in a nutshell. None of them will be found as travelling individuals, as they are collectively under the Dark Lord's sway. Besides which they are all horribly evil and I'd prefer neutral or goodly characters.I suppose the Forodwaith of the far north would be classed as barbarians by your average Dunedain, though in my own head I always had them down as a clever and goodly people. Certainly seems to fit the mould, and then you'd get to wear lots of lovely plate. Working up a background will be challenging though. The knights of Gondor are sworn not simply by duty but by every ounce of their being to protect the lands of their fathers, ie Gondor. Gondor itself is currently under threat from the Wainriders who encroach daily on its territory, so a knight might not be spared to go a-travelling. On the other hand... hm.An inspired idea Binder_Fred/Shayuri. Solves the problem of deforesting the elves' natural habitat, which I was going to bring up at some point. I'm also liking the true-to-form elfyness of this emerging character. Mischievious, playful, carefree despite the darkness of the world. Bound to drive his Middle-Men logging associates up the wall.</blockquote>

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