Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-29145474-20160928033714/@comment-26236093-20160929181112

High King Ithilion wrote: If we're going by the book, I'd say tribal. After the Wainriders were beaten, they disintegrated into smaller tribes, not the great kingdom they once were. I personally think this woks much better and is more interesting than the Khaganate.

I quite agree, especially considering that almost all references in text and appendices of The Lord of the Rings (save for those concerning the confederacy of the Wainriders) seem to imply that the folk of the East were a Tribal and somewhat barbaric people. Furthermore, this is also heavily implied in The Silmarillion as well as in The Peoples of Middle Earth.