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The Free Easterlings eh. Please cite evidence for any existence of these. Anyway, the Avari are their neighbours and they wouldn't take kindly to anyone being there.

Saruman did yes, but did Gandalf? Just because one could doesn't mean they all could.

Thranduil wasn't a true isolationist. And while the Avari do indeed hate orcs with a fury they wouldn't help an army against them by any means, they'd let the orcs come to them where they can fight better.