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"Southward beyond the road lay the main force of the Haradrim, and there their horsemen were gathered about the standard of their chieftain. And he looked out, and in the growing light he saw the banner of the king, and that it was far ahead of the battle with few men about it. Then he was filled with a red wrath and shouted aloud, and displaying his standard, black serpent upon scarlet, he came against the white horse and the green with great press of men; and the drawing of the scimitars of the Southrons was like a glitter of stars.

Then Theoden was aware of him, and would not wait for his onset, but crying to Snowmane he charged headlong to greet him. Great was the clash of their meeting. But the white fury of the Northmen burned the hotter, and more skilled was their knighthood with long spears and bitter. Fewer were they but they clove through the Southrons like a fire-bolt in a forest. Right through the press drove Theoden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down their chieftain. Out swept his sword, and he spurred to the standard, hewed staff and bearer; and the black serpent foundered."

ROTK chapter 6: The Battle of the Pelennor Fields

Of all the designs in the lord of the rings movies, the "evil" men in service to Sauron were a bit of a disappointment to me, mostly because I got the sense alot of their design process was hampered by the requirement not to offend anyone, so whereas the gondorians got to draw from all this long history of beautiful italian art, and the rohirrim were ancient anglo saxons almost to the letter, the invading men from the south and east just kind of ended up looking like mishmashed videogame villains. I suppose I can understand the necessity; phrases like "the white fury of the northmen" are among Tolkien's more shall we say uncomfortable lines, at least for modern tastes, but this design is alot closer to what was in my head while reading the books. the costume is drawn mostly from arabic and turkish armor with a little ancient persian and rajput thrown in for good measure
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Lukkijurpo's avatar

Seeing that lads of Harad are very large large variety of cultures is very likely and as Numenoreans had influence there it is likely that at least some of those areas are civilized in level of technology. They most likely even traded with Gondor during more peaceful times. Those haradrim seen in movie are more of distant tribes living much more primitively and most likely used as cannon fodder which runs away without strict control. This man despite having Evil influence driving him is still brave and honorable man completely capable of peaceful life.