What is the Chance of the Valar Fighting for the Free People During the Third age?

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Originally Posted by Rhun charioteer

True, but all the same I always took the easterlings as Sauron's best troops. At least that was my interpretation and is now still.

Certainly it was always Easterlings, whether Wainriders or Balchoth or whomever, who posed the repeated threats to Gondor. Harad seems to have been much less of a challenge, aside from the Castamids at Umbar. Yes, the Corsairs were a hassle, but I would liken them to their namesake Barbary Pirates as compared to the Ottoman Sultanate (and before the Turks the Magyars, and before them the Avars, and before them the Huns, and before them the Vandals, and before them the Goths, and before them the Sarmatians, and......)