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Harad

In J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy The Lord of the Rings, Harad is the immense land south of Gondor and Mordor. Its main port is Umbar, the base of the Corsairs of Umbar whose ships serve as the Dark Lord Sauron's fleet. Its people are the dark-skinned Haradrim or Southrons; their warriors wear scarlet and gold, and are armed with swords and round…

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First appearance
The Fellowship of the Ring
Locations
Umbar, Near Harad, Far Harad
Other names
Haradwaith, Hyarmen, the Sunlands
Type
Vast hot southern region

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Edges115
Triples203
Avg. degree1.98
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related to Moral geography · 37
Harad → Ancient Rome, Anglo-Saxon, BC, Book, East, Epirus's, Far, Gondor, Haradrim, Haradrim's, India, John Magoun, Lee, Maccabees, Magoun, Mordor, Northwest, Old English, Pauline Baynes, Pyrrhus
related to history · 30
Harad → Adûnaic, Battle, Black Fleet, Black Númenóreans, By, Dark Lord, Despite, Elvish, Gondor, Haradrim, Haradrim Corsairs, In, King Théoden, Númenórean, Númenóreans, Over, Pelennor Fields, Quenya, Ring, Rohan
related to The stereotypical "Other" · 30
Harad → Aftonbladet, Almost, Anderson Rearick, Commentators, Conversely, David Tjeder, From, Gollum, Gollum's, Haradrim, He, John Buchan, Men, Middle-earth, Not, Orcs, Other, Put, Sam Gamgee's, Second World War Tolkien
related to Geography · 27
Harad → Aragorn, Eastern Sea, Gondor, Great Sea, Harad's, Haradrim, Haradwaith, Harnen, Historically, Hyarmen, Khand, Middle-earth, Middle-earth's, Mordor, Mountains, Poros, Rhûn, Ring, Shadow, Sindarin
related to In other media · 27
Harad → Baranor, Corsairs, Creatures, Gondor, Gondor's, Haradrim, Haradrim Slayers, In Peter Jackson's, Ithilien, Middle Eastern, Middle-earth, Middle-earth II, New Zealand, Queenstown, Ring, Rings, Rings Trading Card Game, Saracens, Shadow, The
related to People · 19
Harad → Far Harad, Faramir, Frodo, Gondor, Haradrim, Haradwaith, He, Ithilien, North Road, Rangers, Sam, South-multitude, Southrons, The, The Haradrim, The Men, Their, They, This
related to "Sigelwara Land" · 18
Harad → Aethiopian, Aethiopians, Codex Junius, Exodus, Latin, Old English, Proto-Germanic, Sigel, Sigelhearwan, Sigelwara, Sigelwara Land, Southern, Sun, The Old English Biblical, The Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien's, Tom Shippey
First appearance · 1
Harad → The Fellowship of the Ring
Locations · 1
Harad → Umbar, Near Harad, Far Harad
Other names · 1
Harad → Haradwaith, Hyarmen, the Sunlands

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tolkien haradrim gondor lord land middle-earth tolkien's people black rings men elephants sigelwara mûmakil umbar war word notes far battle

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
HaradFirst appearanceThe Fellowship of the Ring1.00infobox
HaradLocationsUmbar, Near Harad, Far Harad1.00infobox
HaradOther namesHaradwaith, Hyarmen, the Sunlands1.00infobox
HaradTypeVast hot southern region1.00infobox
Haradis aimmense land south of Gondor and Mordor0.90text
Harwaninstance ofTolkien toyed with names0.80text
Sunharrowland for Haradinstance ofTolkien toyed with names0.80text
which were derived from Sigelwarainstance ofTolkien toyed with names0.80text
Anderson Rearickinstance ofCommentators0.80text
Stephen Shapiro have identified the Haradrim as a recognisably foreign race as well as the enemyinstance ofCommentators0.80text
and have accused Tolkien of racisminstance ofCommentators0.80text
Straubhaar have come to Tolkien's defence on the matterinstance ofscholars0.80text

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