Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-101.164.138.244-20161228100622/@comment-27587913-20161228203057

EliSuperHero wrote: Eoros wrote: Dale strikes me more as Denmark tbh. Rohan reminds me of germany, and Gondor is Italy or maybe even byzantine. Umbar reminds me of Egypt (the ancient greeks believed the descendants of Atlanits [numenor] settled in egypt, so i find a parralel between umbar and egypt). Wainriders scream Mongols to me, and anything else in Rhun is ancient Japan or something like the Han dynasty of China. My Opinion:

Dunland - Celts

Rhudaur Hillman - Visigoths

Rohan - Anglo Saxons

Gondor - Byzantines

Near Harad - Ummayad/Abbasid Caliphate

Umbar - Barbary States

Khaganate - Ottomans

Dale - Kievan Rus

Khand - Mongols I agree, though I feel that Gondor is more than Just the Byzantines a mix of several cultures