At the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, the Haradrim cavalry and Mûmakil were a great threat to the Rohirrim that had come to aid the people of Minas Tirith. During the War of the Ring the Haradrim were allied with Sauron. Finally, the Men of Gondor were able to subdue the Haradrim, though they were later freed by the Kin-strife.
In the Second Age, the Men of Númenor built a great city in the firth of Umbar, a vast natural harbor on the southern shores of the Bay of Belfalas, eventually turning the city into a fortified citadel from whose gates the Men of Númenor could levy great tributes upon many of the tribes of Harad.įor many years, the Haradrim were the greatest enemy of Gondor.
