Wainriders
| Wainriders, Balchoth, Variags | |
| Attributes | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Bór and Ulfang |
| Leader(s) | different Kings or Chieftains (Names only known in Rhûn) |
| Capital | {uncharted by Western maps} |
| Home world | Arda |
| Base of operations | Rhûn |
| Language | Westron, and several different Eastern tongues |
| Currency | {unknown} |
| Official religion | Worship of Sauron |
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, "Easterling" and "Easterlings" were generic terms for Men who lived in the east of Middle-earth, who mostly fought under Morgoth and Sauron, not directly but rather on behalf of their own lords.
During the First Age, the term was applied to the Swarthy Men who came from the east and went into Beleriand in Y.S. 463, much later than the Edain. They were of different tribes, which were sometimes on the edge of strife. Some were of the same ethnic stock as the Forodwaith and later men of Lossoth, but all were dark-skinned and broad. The most powerful of their chieftains were Bór and Ulfang, and the Sons of Fëanor made alliance with them.
The people of Bór proved to be faithful, but were completely destroyed during the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, fighting on the side of the Eldar and Edain. But the followers of Ulfang and his son Uldor, the Accursed, were already in league with Morgoth before their coming, and betrayed the Elves and Men of the West to their defeat during the Battle of Unnumbered Tears in what was later known as the Treachery of Men.
However, Ulfang's Easterlings were also betrayed by their lord Morgoth, who had promised them vast lands, and they were locked in Hithlum. After the War of Wrath, those that survived fled back over the Ered Luin to Eriador and beyond.
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