Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-29145474-20170217010507/@comment-26172435-20170217053817

LOTRMod wrote: Rhûn is a very large place, and I am sure many of the peoples of the Uttermost East don't even have interactions with Mordor or Gondor. So those peoples could be considered 'Free Easterlings', not because they withstood Sauron, but simply because they escaped his gaze (similar to Tauredain - who are counted among the 'free peoples'). Certainly the Shire is much closer to Mordor than parts of Rhûn and yet the Hobbits were outside the knowledge of Sauron for a very long time. I assume either the geography and/or some resistance must have stopped the Sauronian message from spreading to the north-east and possibly the utter south-east. If geography, then uninterrupted forests inhabited by suspicious Avari and/or mountains inhabited by suspicious Khazad and/or swamps inhabited by suspicious men influenced by suspicious elves or dwarves. Such areas may be found north of the Palisor and east of the Orocarni. If resistance I strongly tend to follow the later writings of Tolkien on the Ithryn Luin, as noted elsewhere. This may have had an impact on both the north and north-east, and the south-east ... of Rhûn. I'm sure you guys come up with fitting, non-canon-yet-matching, lore.