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In the fictional world of
Middle-earth created by
J. R. R. Tolkien,
Rhûn is a large region of eastern Middle-earth. Rhûn (which also the
Elvish word for "east") is the name used for all lands lying east
Rhovanion, around and beyond the inland
Sea of Rhûn, whence came many attacks on
Gondor and its allies during the
Third Age of Middle-earth.
Almost nothing can be known of the lands beyond the
Sea of Rhûn from Tolkien's written work. The wizard
Gandalf had never explored there, and though
Aragorn is said to have travelled there, there's no report of his doings.
Rhûn's ancient geography can be gleaned a little from the
Silmarillion; throughout most of the
First Age the vast
Sea of Helcar was located here and beyond that the
Orocarni ('red mountains'). Somewhere in the east, too, lay
Cuiviénen and
Hildórien, where Elves and Men first awoke: all the
Children of Ilúvatar could trace their ancestries back to the eastward regions of Middle-earth.
Rhûn was the domain of the Easterlings, Men of Darkness who were ready to follow both the Dark Lords and fought as their allies in war. These lands, too, were peopled by lost Elves,
Avari and
Úmanyar, and by four of the seven clans of the Dwarves.
During the Third Age, Rhûn was visited by three Wizards;
Saruman,
Alatar and
Pallando, and though Saruman returned into the west, the two Blue Wizards remained or went to the south to the lands of Khand and beyond. Sauron himself journeyed into the eastward lands, in hiding from the
White Council during the centuries known in the west as the Watchful Peace.
Dorwinion lies on the west side of the Sea of Rhûn. The
Easterlings of the
Balchoth and Wainriders mostly occupy the lands to the far east of the Sea of Rhûn, where they live on the nomadic steppes.
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