Board Thread:Bug Reports/@comment-27200931-20170323175128/@comment-26078371-20180311153741

AlteOgre wrote: I assume the timeline is of determining relevance here. Easterlings besieged Erebor and Dale during the War of the Ring, after Bilbo's famous birthday party, which marks the beginning of the mod's timeline. This could imply and justify there was still a 'neutral stance' between the Rhúdel and their buddies on the one hand, and Dorwinion and Durin's Folk on the other, as implemented in the mod. However by that logic, Isengard as faction should not exist, since Saruman did not reveal his true nature until many years after Bilbo's Party. I've always understood the mod to focus on the events of the War of the Ring, even if the timeline had to be fudged in some areas to make it fit. In that respect, the Dwarves and Easterlings definitely should be enemies rather than neutral.