

They later appear during the Battle of Pelennor Fields. They first appeared in the West in 1856 and then in 1944 of the Third Age, fighting alongside the Wainriders. It later turned out that their attacks were staged by Sauron, in order to allow him to reclaim Mordor while Gondor's watch was diverted.Ī group of mighty warriors from Khand. They still held Rhovanion, but never troubled Gondor again until the War of the Ring. Many who fled perished in the Dead Marshes and the rest fled East, the might of the Wainriders broken. This became known as the Battle of the Camp. General Eärnil of Gondor's southern army defeated the inferior force of Haradrim in south Ithilien and rode north to storm the camp and set fire to the wains, driving them in a great rout out of Ithilien. Instead of riding on to Minas Arnor and taking the city, they paused to celebrate, believing that Gondor was overthrown and that nothing remained bu to take the spoils. 1944, King Ondoher and all his heirs were slain in the battle north of the Morannon and the Wainriders poured into Ithilien. With this alliance, they orchestrated a simultaneous assault on Gondor from the north and south, the kingdom came close to destruction. They allied under their universal hate of the West.

Before this alliance, the Wainriders had been expanding their power southward, beyond Mordor and had come into conflict with the tribes of Khand and the Haradrim.

After being defeated, they planned a crushing revenge by allying themselves with the Haradrim of Near Harada and the Variags of Khand. 1899, Narmacil's son, Calimehtar, won a temporary reprieve when enslaved Northmen revolted against the Wainriders and he took advantage in order to defeat them in the plain of Dagorlad. They raided the lands of Rhovanion, destroying or enslaving its people. For a time, all of Gondor's possessions east of Anduin were lost to it. Defeating the army of Gondor and King Narmacil II was slain with them beyond Anduin. Following the Great Plague, they started their attacks in 1856. This tribe was stirred by Sauron to descend upon Gondor and its allies, some two centuries after the time of the Great Plague being better armed than previous invaders, they remained a dire threat to the south - kingdom for nearly a hundred years. Their young women were also trained in arms, and they, along with old men and youths, stayed behind able to defend their homes from attackers. They camped in fortified camps of wagons. They journey in great wagons, and their Chieftains rode chariots into battle. They are people or confederacy of men from the East.
