Their language, too.
Tolkien mentioned in one of the appendices--I believe in the "languages" appendix(I'm at work now, and can't check up on it--hell, I'd be too lazy to do it anyway-- that he didn't mean to imply that they were similiar to " the Anglo-Saxons" otherwise and that the chief similiarity was that they were a more primitive tribe inhabiting the former lands of an older and higher culture.
He claims that he has "translated" their langauge into Old English in order to represent the fact that the language that they spoke was an archaic language related to Adunaic--WEstron, which he has translated into "modern English".
However, translator's conceit aside, they are clearly a north Germanic- like tribe((other t han the fact that they fight mainly on horseback, which isn't really like the Anglo-Saxons).
It has engaged me at times to think about who the other tribes of "good Northmen" might correlate to...Beornings, Bardings=Scandinavians, Germans, etc? Haradrim=Arabs?
I've spent long minutes pondering these things.
