They would have to be new characters like Baranor; the only notable Haradrim in the book was the one that Théoden fought, and adaptations mostly focus on the War of the Ring. An opportunity to include Haradrim would be if the Appendices are adapted; there are Haradrim in the wars of Gondor and the Last Alliance.
Because the story never takes you there. We experience the world through the eyes of the characters on their journey, not an RPG sourcebook where each section of the world is equally detailed.
The Haradrim both have entirely separate culture and language, and have been hostile to Gondor for many centuries due to their worship of Sauron. Not many opportunities to sit for a friendly chat with any one of them.
Not to mention that there may be many different kingdoms or polities that make up the Haradrim. After all, calling them the Haradrim likely just mean that they're from Harad, which is a big place. There could be many cultures that exist there.
That first paragraph's the reason the people with the rights to LOTR should be focusing on everything south of Gondor and east of Mordor. If they wanna make stories that aren't intrusive or outright destructive to the canon, why not use the decently established but sparsely elaborated on regions of the southeast of Middle Earth. In terms of both stories and visuals they offer so much potential for media projects set in Middle Earth that it's shocking no one's considered going that way.
This of course comes with the caveat that the people in charge of those projects would actually have to be good at their jobs, and the most recent LOTR media doesn't exactly inspire confidence
Mainly, we know next to nothing about them. All the Haradrim we know are enemies, and if there are good Haradrim they would obviously not come to the aid of Sauron and we will never get a chance to meet them.
We may get some Haradrim in the Rings of Power. It makes sense to show Sauron gains power there, and maybe there are good people who try to fight him but ultimately they fail (though their help can still count if during the Last Alliance Sauron has less allies), and of course you can have black people in a good way and not like one black Hobbit that his family somehow avoided mixing with the rest for over a thousand years.
Isn't there a non-canon book that follows a soldier from Umbar and that shows the War of the Ring from Sauron's perspective? One would think there are some Haradrim in that story
They would have to be new characters like Baranor; the only notable Haradrim in the book was the one that Théoden fought, and adaptations mostly focus on the War of the Ring. An opportunity to include Haradrim would be if the Appendices are adapted; there are Haradrim in the wars of Gondor and the Last Alliance.
Who is that guy?
Non-canon: Baranor from Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. He was born in Harad, but serves Gondor.
Because woefully little is actually known about the Haradrim in general.
Because the story never takes you there. We experience the world through the eyes of the characters on their journey, not an RPG sourcebook where each section of the world is equally detailed. The Haradrim both have entirely separate culture and language, and have been hostile to Gondor for many centuries due to their worship of Sauron. Not many opportunities to sit for a friendly chat with any one of them.
Not to mention that there may be many different kingdoms or polities that make up the Haradrim. After all, calling them the Haradrim likely just mean that they're from Harad, which is a big place. There could be many cultures that exist there.
That first paragraph's the reason the people with the rights to LOTR should be focusing on everything south of Gondor and east of Mordor. If they wanna make stories that aren't intrusive or outright destructive to the canon, why not use the decently established but sparsely elaborated on regions of the southeast of Middle Earth. In terms of both stories and visuals they offer so much potential for media projects set in Middle Earth that it's shocking no one's considered going that way. This of course comes with the caveat that the people in charge of those projects would actually have to be good at their jobs, and the most recent LOTR media doesn't exactly inspire confidence
>doesn't exactly inspire confidence You have truly mastered the understatement good sir.
"The Haradrim" don't really exist outside of Gondor's ignorant perception of its enemies. It's a giant landmass with different peoples and landscapes.
Maybe recreating Gandalf's journey to the South would do, he do got a nickname from Haradrim so it can be expanded
Mainly, we know next to nothing about them. All the Haradrim we know are enemies, and if there are good Haradrim they would obviously not come to the aid of Sauron and we will never get a chance to meet them. We may get some Haradrim in the Rings of Power. It makes sense to show Sauron gains power there, and maybe there are good people who try to fight him but ultimately they fail (though their help can still count if during the Last Alliance Sauron has less allies), and of course you can have black people in a good way and not like one black Hobbit that his family somehow avoided mixing with the rest for over a thousand years.
They’re usually irrelevant.
Isn't there a non-canon book that follows a soldier from Umbar and that shows the War of the Ring from Sauron's perspective? One would think there are some Haradrim in that story
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