Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-30303386-20170128014514/@comment-25131077-20170129021006

MrHobit1234 wrote: I will stangle you, THE FACTIONS IN MIDDLE EARTH ARE NOT BASED ON ONE CULTURE!!!! I for one am fed up with people asuming each nation of Arda is based on a real world cultures. '''NEWS FLASH! THEY ARE NOT!' Middle Earth is a fantasy world with influence'' from the real world. If say, harad was based on the Arabs as you claim, they would have cannons. Harad is a petty state with it's leaders totally subservient to Sauron, I for one cannot find even one quote from Tolkien saying they where good horsemen. Next time you make a suggestion, read the books and do it right. I am done.

Could you show me when the Arabs had cannons before cannons were invented? Obviously the corresponding time to Middle Earth would have no cannons (there is no cannons in Lord of the Rings) So at least be accurate and say that Arabs really carry automatic guns and grenades...

If you thought it through you would realize that a bad horseman cannot ride from Harad to Gondor and then stand against the world's finest cavalry when the orcs broke and ran... And the mumaks did not play as big a role in the books as in the movie. They are barely mentioned in the books. And they help prove the point that the Haradrim were good horsemen. It takes a good horseman to manage a horse near an elephant.

Your argument that they brought horseman just because they were outnumbered doesn't stand up. First why bring horsemen if your specialty is in footmen and you are besieging a city? They brought horsemen because there army was mainly made up of that... Plus they didn't know the Rohirrim would come and thought Sauraman took care of them.

And please calm down. There was nothing that ignored the FAQ and no one ever said Harad equaled Arabs...