Funnily enough Gondor and Numenoreans in general had long history of colonising Harad, fortunately their main army got nuked by Valar so there were never enough of them to take over anything more than the northern wilderness entirely (and that happened before Numenor had sunk).
Also the so called “men of the west” were the most incompetent people in entire Middle-Earth, everyone else, even with catastrophic wars, managed to hold more or less to something, but the fabled kindom of Arnor died off to the point where the biggest remnant is the village of Bree with maybe few hundred people living in it (half of which are hobbits) and the southern kindgom of Gondor was also apparently depopulated to a point where entire huge kingdom managed to field around 6500 soldiers for what was widely considered the fight for biological survival.
nah, they successfully colonized all along the coast of middle earth from the northwest to harad. caused untold ecological damage too. abused the natives.
their numbers were never very great, so the populations of the realms they ended up ruling after the fall of numenor were mostly non-numenorean everywhere. there were pockets of numenoreans here and there (around lake evendim, around minas tirith, in ithilien before it was overrun, in belfalas and around umbar at least).
For a sec there I thought he meant that he was larping as one of these guys from LOTR.
Funnily enough Gondor and Numenoreans in general had long history of colonising Harad, fortunately their main army got nuked by Valar so there were never enough of them to take over anything more than the northern wilderness entirely (and that happened before Numenor had sunk).
Also the so called “men of the west” were the most incompetent people in entire Middle-Earth, everyone else, even with catastrophic wars, managed to hold more or less to something, but the fabled kindom of Arnor died off to the point where the biggest remnant is the village of Bree with maybe few hundred people living in it (half of which are hobbits) and the southern kindgom of Gondor was also apparently depopulated to a point where entire huge kingdom managed to field around 6500 soldiers for what was widely considered the fight for biological survival.
nah, they successfully colonized all along the coast of middle earth from the northwest to harad. caused untold ecological damage too. abused the natives.
their numbers were never very great, so the populations of the realms they ended up ruling after the fall of numenor were mostly non-numenorean everywhere. there were pockets of numenoreans here and there (around lake evendim, around minas tirith, in ithilien before it was overrun, in belfalas and around umbar at least).