User blog comment:LOTRMod/Name of Rhúdel Capital City/@comment-25012056-20170208210224/@comment-26172435-20170209171003

Eh, 'Peace made at swordpoint'? No, rather 'A long-lasting peace that's been getting more and more fragile' as the Khaganate's power and influence grew in the end of the TA, supported by Mordor and it's mighty ruler. Not that is was ever truly peace and happyness between the nations to the north-west and south-east of the Rhúnaer. You could consider their 'peace' one of 'mutual necessity', an unavoidable symbiosis of two nations that shared a very long and deep natural mistrust because of their shared and often violent history, interrupted by devastating plague and war events after which they both yearned for a political status that would enable them to recover. After some decades The Khaganate probably needed Dorwinion to be sustained for their advanced production system which provided the Khaganate much needed funds from the trade of Dorwinion products with the less civilized peoples east and south of them, and Dorwinion needed the Khaganate to keep the hordes of the plains at bay.