That's true. Rights to a piece of land have started some of the bloodiest conflicts known to man. Just look at the Crusades!
Since the land grant of Rohan to the Rohirrim displaced a lot of people like the Dunlendings and the Orcs, the Dunlendings felt like their rightful land had been stolen. It is indeed like the Middle-east conflict between Israel and Palestine. Israel can be compared to Rohan, and Palestine to Dunland. The Palestinian people were roughly pushed out of the land they were used to living in for a long time, by the Israelites, who claimed that it was theirs by right (due to a land grant). Hopefully the Israel-Palestine conflict won't end up in a Battle-of-Helm's-Deep situation!
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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