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Dolgukhor wrote: Actually harad is most like the persian faction irl as Arabs didnt have war elephaunts...and are of a lighter skin tone (diffrent armour too) Harad is a mix of the Mamluks and Persia, the turks (Ottomans) are most closely represented as Mordor, not in culture but in tactics and as my firends continuously point out, the Siege of Minas Tirith vastly resembles the Siege of Vienna. where a defending force (Gondor/Austria) is attacked by a larger enemy army (Mordor/Ottomans) who are winning until a huge cavalry force charges down (Rohan/Poland), of course this is pretty much the main instance of this comparrison, as culturally, Harad is resembles a mix of Mamluks and Persia (maybe a little of carthage), Gondor resembles the Byzantine Empire (as Numenor is the Roman one), Rohan is Anglo-Saxon, and Mordor is a wierd mix of many industrial nations who beleive in quantity over quality.