Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-29145474-20170217010507/@comment-26890432-20170218183552

Loke Khan Torgou of Rhun wrote: Also I don't live in a weaker kingdom. I live in a khaganate/empire. ''For the love of all that is Holy! ''I'm at an utter loss as to why or how people conjure up the ideas of massive Empires for Harad and Rhun. Even if we disregard the quote on the Mod's facebook page which specifically dispels this notion ("their lands and peoples arent nearly big enough to be considered an Empire"), we are still left with the written fact that the only "empire" by the end of the Third Age was Sauron's Dominion. To which, as it happens, Harad and Rhun were subjected as vassals. Lore quote: "To them He was both King and God, to be feared and worshipped above all else."

As to the bizzare claim of Gondor's rape/murder imperialism sprees, goodness knows from where you have garnered that information. If Gondor's treatment of the Northmen in the early-mid Third Age is anything to go off of, they were pretty lenient towards their subjects, even in the periods of the Kingdom's power.

Sorry, but such commentary on "evil/nasty imperialism" should probably be confined to Fanfiction, and not the lore established by an 'early 20th century Englishman. '