Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27462565-20161205065856/@comment-26172435-20170102064659

TheodenOfRohan wrote: Legoarmy505 wrote: I think that Dorwinion would play out like France in WW2. Once the war starts, they will be invaded so Germany (Easterlings) can get to Britain (Dale/Erebor) and take it. Dorwinion would be occupied but the Easterlings wouldn't really be mean to them like the Germans were in our time. As they would be beaten but by allied troopers, they would be more hard the population, looting and burning it as they went (again as they did in our time). And eventually beaten completely, paying war debts and tributes to the allies for the war and being occupied by them (Soviets count as allies) What would Russia be in ME?

Forget about 'equivalents' of modern day earth on middle-earth. It's more useful to look at earth in the early middle-ages as that is the period Tolkien derived his inpsiration from, and it would likely give best fit between lore and custom-lore-additions the mod needs to fill in the gaps. There's quite a few websites offering historically justifiable geopolitical maps of the time. I would check maps representing earth in 500-750 AD. The 'Rus' at the time were an emerging empire of originally northern descent intermingled with local slavic people inhabiting the broad valleys and plains of the main rivers north of the Black Sea.

So, as far as I'm concerned, there are simply no 'german' or 'french', 'english' or 'dutch' equivalents on ME, and no 'russian' either. :P