Also known as: Haradwaith, The Sunlands
Harad was the great hot country far south of Gondor and Mordor, the Sunlands, home of the Haradrim or Southrons -- fierce dark Men who painted their eyes, marched under scarlet banners, and went to war upon the towering beasts called mumakil, the oliphaunts. Long under the dominion of Sauron, who in those lands was worshipped as a god, the peoples of both Near and Far Harad came north in great strength to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. After the war King Elessar made peace with the men of the South, and freed the slaves who laboured by the bitter Sea of Nurnen.