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Kickratgames wrote: Mrhobbit, Dunland was convinced Rohan burned their prisoners alive (which irish celts actually did btw) because they already believed rohan was evil. Now dunland like lots of countries would be very prideful of their freedom. so it would be hard to convince them to be slaves. Do you see how it is easy to convince someone who half believes in something, to fully believe in it. This is called persausion.

for example. If you were to try to talk to someone who was a devout believer in a religion and you were a right hand of the person they believe in and you said "since I am the right hand of your god work for me." they would listen. or if you said to dunlendings who already hate rohan "Rohan burns their prisoners alive." they would probably listen.

Now if you said to a people prideful of their freedom " Come be my slaves for the rest of your lives" they would most likely disagree. Please keep in mind that Saruman's most potent form of wizardry was his silver tongue. He was able to partially sway the Rohirrhim who were with Gandalf near the end of The Return of the King. I don't think it impossible for Saruman to force some of the Dunlendings that he had already worked into a frenzy to serve him and his Orcs.