Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-29680750-20170806070151/@comment-25841881-20170810172606

They had no claim? It was empty land. Your talk of rulers has no meaning. People didn't live there. Why does it matter that Gondorians claim it? They are not using it, and they are the only ones backing up their claim. The claim the Dunlendings have is that they lived there. They wandered, as pretty much all Men did at one point.. And like the early Edain, they found a place which was decent to live in. Much like the early Edain, they started living there, despite the fact that it lay within the land of some ruler they didn't know about. Except then the descendants of the early Edain decided to end the similarities by absolutely rejecting the Dunlendings, as opposed to accepting them into their lands, as the Noldor did with the early Edain.