Khand

Khand was the name of a land which lay to the south-east of Mordor and to the east of Near Harad. The Men of Khand were called Variags.

Little is known about Khand or its people, but it appears to have been much like Rohan; the Variags were a people of riders.

The people of Khand and of Rhûn seemed to have been enemies on and off throughout the ages. but made a peace treaty to unite together against Gondor.

Khand was under the influence of Mordor and supplied it with horses, and twice came into the history of Gondor: first in Third Age 1944 when the Variags together with the Wainriders attacked Gondor, and later during the War of the Ring when they fought at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. While this is not directly said in the literature, it is probable that Khand gradually fell under the control of Gondor during the Fourth Age and was hostile to it no longer.