I personally like the idea of a unified Golden Khanganate more, but in canon there is absolutly nothing about the organiastion of Rhûn in the Third Age.
I like to think there'd be both. In areas North and East of Mordor I think of as being more Imperial, but anything South and East of Mordor is more Tribal.
Northern rhun was more imperial as they were able to siege erebor and loot Dale with ease, south more, stil in palisor though it should be tribal as the wain riders and Batchloth where tribal the more easy, the more triabel
I personally like the idea of a unified Golden Khanganate more, but in canon there is absolutly nothing about the organiastion of Rhûn in the Third Age.
There is mention of an empire or empires in rhun but they never actually fight in the wars of middle earth.
If we're going by the book, I'd say tribal. After the Wainriders were beaten, they disintegrated into smaller tribes, not the great kingdom they once were. I personally think this woks much better and is more interesting than the Khaganate.
Ithilion, Discussions Moderator(Auta i lome) 11:33, September 29, 2016 (UTC)
Well, it is possible that they were tribal for some time, then all the small tribes were gobbled up by one of the larger tribes, which became the Golden Khanganate.
High King Ithilion wrote: If we're going by the book, I'd say tribal. After the Wainriders were beaten, they disintegrated into smaller tribes, not the great kingdom they once were. I personally think this woks much better and is more interesting than the Khaganate.
I quite agree, especially considering that almost all references in text and appendices of The Lord of the Rings (save for those concerning the confederacy of the Wainriders) seem to imply that the folk of the East were a Tribal and somewhat barbaric people, as do those in The Silmarillion and The Peoples of Middle Earth.