In canon, the men of the east and south are not inherently evil, but both have been under the sway of Sauron for a long time when the events of the Lord of the Rings trilogy begin. This is especially true of the east, where Sauron went into hiding on multiple occasions over millennia, deeply entrenching the worship of Morgoth in the region. Both Rhun and Harad are long-time enemies of the the men of the west, and the kingdoms of Gondor and Rohan in particular. So even for those who weren't necessarily followers of Sauron, it was easy to justify an alliance with Mordor since it provided the opportunity to get back at their traditional enemies. After the ring is destroyed and Sauron defeated, King Aragorn brokers a peace treaty with Harad, but fighting continues for some time in the east, with Kings Aragorn and Eomer campaigning together against the Easterlings for years. It goes to show that these men were just as complex as any others, with some choosing to make peace and even cooperate to an extent with their old enemies, while others continued to fight bitterly without Sauron's influence.

Rhûn is a human faction that has been thoroughly corrupted by the Morgoth"s cult. There is an entire plot line parallel to the war of the ring with the "rise of the Khan" causing a civil war between the morgoth's cult of Rhûn and the Khan's rebellion trying to break the grasp of Sauron on their people. Harad were nomadic desert people living South which were colonised by Gondor in the early parts of the Third Age, causing a lot of drastic changes in their culture. Between the constant unrest, hostile climate and dangerous beasts, Gondor ended up abandoning the place, leaving it in a very unstable state. Sauron took advantage of the situation (and of their Hate for Gondor) and corrupted them, making them loyal semi-slaves to his armies. That's the bit of Lore to answer your question at the start ^^ (Edit : corrected a couple spelling mistakes, don't mind it ^^)

Imagine living for a 1000 years, perfecting your fighting skills for thousands of hours and then being killed by some orc who was born 2 months ago

The weirdest elves are probably the dark elves from the elder scrolls, they ride bugs, eat bugs, wear bugs, mine bug eggs and have a lot of weird customs

I never watched through the lotr trilogy but your videos made me give it a go and Im amazed at how good those movies are🔥🔥🔥 Love all your seige battles!!!!

Good commentary Apollo!!!

Apollo calling the elf bow murder racist had me dying holy smokes 😂

“Actually I’ve never read books…what am I doing?” Hahaha I’ve been laughing over this for the last five minutes.

Apollo is elveophobic??😂

I love stream-of-consciousness Apollo commentary

I was desperately waiting on apollo to see the cavalry going for the bowman while talking about the army sizes! "THE CAV APOLLO LOOK".

Will Ferrell’s version is the strangest yet also the best rendition ever

i found the elves in eragon really strange, like the have a code of formal gestures tha seems the english nobility

pretty cool. I have discovered this Chanel just recently, have been watching a lot of your old videos.

God I’ve missed these lord of the rings battles so much when you post them I get so happy

the bad commentary makes the video 10/10 better lol

Hi pixelated Apollo! I’m loving the great lord of the rings videos

The weirdest elf is the one that talks to me At night

Good old occassional middle earth battles from pixelated Apollo!

This battle was fun to play in lol My allies kinda goofed the attack when the cav sallied out tho we all did awesome commentary really cool to see the games we play end up here i love it

"i hate the elves" -ulfric stormcloack

Some how no matter what he posts I love it

It would be awesome if there’s a mod for Aragorn as a general with the ghost army sure they can still be killed but awesome to see

Love this mod, more battles please x)

You are so under rated 👍

"Two very different people though, very different people."

Strangest elves? Warhammer 40k harlequins no competition. Terrifying half mad clown elves nah nah not for me

The machine elves from DMT trips are definetly the weirdest

The Elder Scrolls elves are definitely the most unique. The Falmer in particular are pretty wild looking.

The orc army forgot to eat before this battle.

I've been playing Divide and Conquer again, i to love LOTR lore vids

20:58 Snookys hair hhh

do u have a lighting mod? looks really good almost thought it was rome

I think that the weirdest elves are the Icelandic Christmas elves 😂

dnd elves are the strangest especialy when you get into their dieties.

Is it hard to get and install this mod? I've never used mods and am really interested in this

is the campaign map out yet for this? also love youuuuu!

What mods used for this

Hi

10:09 how could you tell i was judging 🤭

FINALY somme lord of the rings !!!!!!!!!! Thanks Apollo

Does anyone know the name of this map they are using it looks so good

Where can I buy this game?

@Pixelated Apollo you should do a golf run with a group of your inner circle and let us watch the battle of strokes

Laughing at the “don’t judge me guys but I do like Harry Potter and golf” those are very normal things to like but I could see the hardcore gamer world finding something wrong with that.

The strangest "elves" would probably be the Falmer (From The Elder scrolls 5)

elder from 40k are my favorite type of elves

10:50 About immortal and so good at everything with elves. Cause there is this very known separetion between people loving elves or dwarves, and the people who hate elves are like "The elves are cawards, just hiding and shooting arrows from the distance". And here I think the immortal part explaines so good why elves use bows, cause since every life is infinite (and cause of that there is alos no need for fast growing population) fight in line in melee is to riski if not neccesary and every elven death in terms of lost qaulity is equal to thousands of humans so if it's possible to shoot someone form distance it's better. I guess it's pretty obvious thing but I just thought about it for a while recently and it just makes so much sense when you realize that.

Cookie elves are by far the most unsettling ...

Immortality doesn't mean you have infinite memory, you'd probably forget way, way more than you could ever know as an immortal.

Been watching you since 2015 and its Sad that you haven't reached 1m yet😢

What game is this?

That was a genocide against Isengard.

Nice

whats the base game???

Yea. Respectfully, this battle was definitely a show of elven might but more a display of weird decision making more than anything.

im the same with lotr lore

is this a mod for medieval 2? unbelievable! the graphics look so modern

Id have to say the elves from Eragon are strange. magical, heavily asian-inspired (at least how i pictured), and some not even humanoid any more

I came for epic battle, i left with the Harry potter theories... -_- :)

No way it looks this amazing, what game is this also what's the mod?

In ANNY kind of siege game you posted, you always said , "the worst place to attack a settlement are the gates" probably 1000 times you said it and still they do it 🤨🤨🤨🤔🤔🤔

Is this MWB 2? It looks TW but pretty cool :i

I hate asling creators to do things, but when the mod fully releases, are you planning a play through with the different factions?

I dont know about strangest, but the best elves are BIlly and Mandy elves

The elf from Rudolph

The elfs from hellboy are weird

Can you make more bandelord videos

LOTR content. More please.

Is this an Attila mod?

Harad would never join with the elves hahaha theyve been under the spell of Sauron and Morgoth before him for like 6000+ years

Is this Attila or Thrones of Britannia modded

Game?

What game is this??

Did you say Isengard stan? If so what is that?

Rhun and Harad are the Orcs and Goblin version of Men

Hentai elves or the 1% super degenerate elves in anime or 30K elves in Warhammer Space or WH40K. Especially dark elves in fantasy and 40K.

Reeee

Can you please play third war lord of the rings I miss it 😪

Were u high on that battle?? Wtf

I think you judge yourself for the both of us. Witch works 'cuse I am lazy about such things.

bbapo

Bring back 3rd age

I hate the elves from the Witcher series and Elder Scrolls. Such a'holes. Dark Eldar from Warhammer 40k are crazy but I don't know if that's what you're after.

Almost as bad as drachenlord...

This is racist 😂

Dude harry potter is good... dont you dare be embarassed

nice battle. weird commentary.

love the videosm but you tend to forget the battle and start talking total nonsense

Ugh maybe it's just me but I just really hate Rome 2's lighting system. Even in direct sunlight all the units are dark and shadowy as if they're absorbing light. :\

Boring battle attackers sucked

bro you've gotta delete this channel after that nordalin, imladris mishap. What were you even saying

Tolkien lore videos are awful. Sincerely... Read the books. When those videos don't get things wrong, they explain things in a vague way, so they can always put another video out