Talk:Far Harad
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Latest comment: 17 May 2011 by Amroth
Eazy, do you have any evidence for these descriptions of Haradrim? Just wanting to clarify. --Dwarf Lord 00:20, 2 December 2006 (EST)
I'd also like to know the source of these descriptions. I've been looking everywhere for info on these guys and got zilch. --nightpotato
- I don't have time right now, but in a couple of days I could search for sources - the page needs an update in any case.--Morgan 07:05, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- The name "Far Harad" is extremely uncommon in the works of JRRT, and we therefore have to be careful about making too much out of this article: the name occurs once in LotR (RK:V6), and once in UT (II. The Istari), from what I can find. In the HoMe, I only found a mention of the term in The War of the Ring, pp. 369, 372, and 439.
- Concerning two statements found in this article, both will be deleted since they cannot be extracted from any of the sources given above (except if one uses "over-interpretation"). These are:
- "The terrain consisted mostly of desert and a jungle."
- "Oliphaunts could be found in a great forest in Far Harad."
- Perhaps they could be re-added in an altered form, like "it is possible that...", or something similar (but I would rather mention the oliphaunts only in the Harad article).
- Myself, I added: [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] stated that [[Gandalf]] might have made a visit to Far Harad during one of his travels, but that it was too short a visit for there having "''acquired a special name''".<ref>{{UT|Istari}}</ref> Would this be over-interpretation too? :-) The full quote is:
"At any rate it seems unlikely that he ever journeyed or stayed long enough in the Harad (or Far Harad!) to have there acquired a special name in any of the alien languages of those little known regions."
- The exclamation mark somehow suggests that it's very improbable that he ever visited Far Harad! ;-)
--Morgan 20:58, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- If I remember correctly there's a sentence somewhere in About the Rings of Powers in Silmarillion which says about the Black-Númenoreans that they lived south of the Haradrim. I'll see if I can find the sentence. Maybe something interesting that could be added to the article. --Amroth 14:26, 17 May 2011 (UTC)