Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-30024199-20161026223139/@comment-25754873-20161228145323

Dragonovith wrote:

ZomboDragonR3x wrote: What tribe were the easterlings from the first age? There's an article about First Age Easterlings on Tolkien Gateway.

69.242.54.218 wrote: I think you people get a little crazy when it comes to "canon" I mean we don't know that much about easterlings so I think it's fine to give the mod team some creative freedom, I would personally prefer the balchoth be their own separate faction. I'm interested to know where all these Easterling factions are going to live, we know that the balchoth lived southeast of mirkwood on the edge of the wilderlands, we know the varings lived in khand, and we can guess based on the map we were shown that the golden Khaganate will live around th sea of Rhun. How ever we don't know where the Wainriders or free easterlings are going to live, unlike the balchoth it was never mentioned where the Wainriders lived but I guess that they will live either north of the sea of Rhun or north of harhudor. Since the free easterlings  were never mentioned they could live anywhere. All we can do for now is discuss the lore, and actually, I believe everyone mean well. Regardless of which route they decide to take while developing the East, I'm sure that we won't be disappointed.

Returning to the Balchoth discussion, have you guys read Unfinished Tales? There's a part where it talks about the Balchoth invasion. Anyway, it seems too far fetched that Eorl would kill every single Balchoth alive, I mean, Rhovanion is huge! Tolkien aid they where hnted down so they are extinct, simple as that.