Rhûn

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| image=[[Image:Rhunmap.jpg|300px]]
| name=Rhûn
| othernames=The East
| etymology=[[Sindarin|S.]] ''[[rhûn]]'' "east"
| type=Realm
| location=Eastern Lands of [[Middle-earth]], north of [[Mordor]]
| inhabitants=[[Easterlings]]
| realms=Rhûn
| description=Centered by [[Sea of Rhûn]]
| events=
| references=
|}}
'''Rhûn''' refers to the little-known lands in the far east of [[Middle-earth]] inhabited by peoples known as the "[[Easterlings]]", from whom many attacks on [[Gondor]] and its allies came during the [[Third Age]].

==History==
Almost nothing of the lands beyond the great [[Sea of Rhûn]] is known.

Far beyond the Sea of Rhûn was another inland sea, the [[Sea of Helcar]], and beyond that the range of [[Orocarni]], the Red Mountains. Somewhere in the lost 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. We know also that it was a wide and vast land with many kingdoms, and strange and unexplored places.

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]] who dwelt in the Orocarni.

During the [[Third Age]], Rhûn was visited by three [[Wizards]]; [[Saruman]], [[Rómestámo]] and [[Morinehtar]], and though Saruman returned into the west, the two [[Blue Wizards]] remained. Even [[Gandalf]] had never explored there, and though [[Aragorn]] had travelled there, he never reported of his doings.

[[Sauron]] himself journeyed into the eastward lands, in hiding from the [[White Council]] during the centuries of the [[Watchful Peace]].

Rhûn was conquered by Gondor twice: under the Kings [[Rómendacil I]] and [[Rómendacil II]], but the Númenóreans never had full control over it. Rhûn was finally subdued in the [[Fourth Age]] under King Elessar and his son [[Eldarion]].

==Geography==
The western part of Rhun is shown on the Lord of the Rings map. It contains the great [[Sea of Rhun]], connected with three rivers, one northeast, a part of [[River Running]], one northwest and one running south to [[Mordor]]. It also shows a small mountain range southeast of the sea and a forest northwest of it.
Northwest of the Sea of Rhun lays also the land of [[Dorwinion]].

The inland [[Sea of Rhun]] was located in western Rhun on the border between Rhun and [[Wilderland]]. There were mountains on the southwest side of the Sea of Rhun and a forest on the northeast side. Wild white [[Kine of Araw]], or oxen, lived near the shores of the Sea of Rhun.

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 there and beyond that the [[Orocarni]] ('red mountains').

==Etymology==
*'''Rhûn''' means "east" in [[Sindarin]].

==Referecnces==
*[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]: "[[The Council of Elrond]]", "[[The Breaking of the Fellowship]]"
*[[The Two Towers]]: "[[The Black Gate is Closed]],"; "[[Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit]],"; "[[The Window on the West]]"
*Appendix A of The Lord of the Rings: "Gondor and the Heirs of Anarion", "The House of Eorl"
*[[The History of Middle-earth]], vol. XII, [[The Peoples of Middle-earth]]: "The Heirs of Elendil,"; "The Tale of Years of the Third Age,"; "The Making of Appendix A,"; "Of Dwarves and Men,".

[[Category:Realms]]
[[Category:Eastern Lands]]

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