Talk:Factions/Dunlendings: Misunderstood?/@comment-26084195-20150527004530

Wro-ong!

I'd like to point out one huge, gaping flaw that pretty much blows this argument away: Rohan didn't invade the former land of the Dunlendings!

Calenardhon was a province belonging to Gondor. And after the Rohirrim heroically saved Gondor, the Gondorians gave them their own land. Land that, belonging to them, was free to give away. The Rohirrim graciously accepted this free land. But when they got to Calenardhon, they found it populated by barbaric hillmen that had taken up residence there without permission, and were refusing to leave when the rightful owners came to claim that land. So, having no desire to share their land with the barbaric squatters, they forcefully evicted them. The Dunlendings are the bad guys, there's no doubting it.