The Taproom

Huooommm … please give me some time for that … huom … two or three days … as I’m a very busy tree at the moment …. rhuooommm

Thanks for the warning, I plan on starting the orc standard bearer as soon as he arrives.

Might have been me –

MERP invented a particular tribal name “Sagath” to define an Easterling tribal confederation dwelling close to Rhovanion.

Tolkien mentioned the Balchoth in his works, assumably as a Gondorian description of an Easterling federation (who would have had their own name, obviously).

And I’m too braindead to help.

Yes Sagath was the tribe that I remembered being mentioned. M241 is Brodda the Easterling what tribe is he supposed to be from? And M242 Hithlum Easterling is the other figure from that set.

Huoommm … rhuom … so much to comment here … hom
Yes, Master Barliman, it was also me being surprised about the “restrictions” by Master O’Brian … rhuoommm … I also complained about that and then was told to regard of it better as to “having a new idea(topic)” for suggestions … of course not wanting to limit suggestions to a certain topic … rhuoommmm … whatever that means … gggrruoooohhm … anyway, some people kept to their own ideas and suggested them, disregarding this new “idea” by Master O’Brian … huomm … I feel fine with the result of the last vote, as that Dunlending-musician-suggestion wasn’t based on such thoughts …. rhuooommmm …

Yes, and I do hope he’ll be blowing a carnyx … huoommm … as I am also sure that The Man’s idea of sculpting Dunlendings very clearly always was based on Celtic art and design … huoomm … I already talked about that somewhere else lately …. rhuoommm

Indeed, Master Theobald. The ´Eastern group` would be more or less set in the Third Age as you say. A little appreciation, the Balchoth were called ´Wainriders`(I think it is in English, ´Aurigas`in Spanish) at the beginning of the Third Age (until 2000 TA or so). Somehow the Balchoth and Wainriders were related, so to speak. If I’m not wrong …:rolleyes:

‘Auriga’ in Spanish comes directly from Latin. Men in ancient Greece and Rome ruled the horses of the racing cars on the circus.

Thank you very much for these detailed informations, Master erchamion! It helps a lot finding the real differences.
As far as I am concerned I do not hide my passion about these troups from the east. I can see clearly now . . .
The reason for floating around this evening making my mind up preparing the next project . . .

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Brodda is a chief of a tribe of men from the east…of Beleriand. So its entirely likely Brodda was from Eriador. It’s also entirely likely that Brodda was from a tribe somewhat akin to Turin’s people themselves.

The term “easterling” means “one from the east” its an old, and “real” English word with an old Germanic root. So in the Icelandic sagas, some Norwegians are called Easterlings. In the German sagas, the Huns are called Easterlings. In the Lord of the Rings, the Easterlings owe a lot to those Hunnic tribes. The Silmarillion Easterlings are something more old school.

They could be related. It’s likely they are not. MERP explicitly links the Silmarillion Easterlings to the barrow building folk who may have been the ancestors of the Hillmen.