[Thème du mois] Les Orientaux du 3ème Age

[Meriadoc]

Puisque certains s'impatientent, voilà déjà quelques citations concernant les Gens-des-chariots, qui font partie des Orientaux.

Les citations sont toutes tirées de Unfinished Tales, Third age. Les numéros des pages se réfèrent à l'édition HarperCollins. Désolé, mais je n'ai pas accès aux CLI pour l'instant pour donner les traductions des citations.

p376:

their youths and old men were aided by the younger women, who in that people were also trained in arms and fought fiercely in defence of their homes and their children.

Beyond the reach of the arms of Gondor, in lands east of the Sea of Rhŭn from which no tidings came to its Kings, their kinsfolk spread and multiplied, and they were eager for conquests and booty and filled with hatred of Gondor which stood in their way.

the eastern Wainriders had been spreading southward, beyond Mordor, and were in conflict with the peoples of Khand and their neighbours further south. Eventually a peace and alliance was agreed between these enemies of Gondor, and an attack was prepared that should be made at the same time from north and south.

p378:

a great dust borne on a wind from the East announced the oncoming of the enemy vanguard.15 This was composed not only of the war-chariots of the Wainriders but also of a force of cavalry far greater than any that had been expected.

p380:

they could no longer use their greater numbers with full effect according to the tactics they had intended, being accustomed to warfare in open lands.

Désolé de ne pas décrire leurs territoires orientaux mais les historiens du Gondor n'y étaient pas vraiment les bienvenus