Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-30024199-20161026223139/@comment-27200931-20161227184400

Celeborn of Lothlorien wrote: Oh god yeah I just looked it up turns out the Rohirrim went full Genocide on the balcoth o-o, even though I'm not 100% sure WHERE they lived... One wiki to rule them all claims near Khand, but it seems weird that a people from near Khand would attack Gondor from the North... From Tolkien Gateway:

"The Balchoth were a clan of Easterlings under the sway of Dol Guldur, who lived in Rhovanion, the lands southeast of the forest of Mirkwood."

And don't forget that Hannibal crossed the Iberian Peninsula and the Alps to attack Rome from the North.