Variags

The Variags (in the real world, this is another name for the Scandanavian Varangians) were from Khand, and they first appeared in the north-west of Middle-earth in 1944 of the Third Age, fighting alongside the Wainriders. They were also present during the battle of the Pelennor Fields, over a thousand years later. Little was known about them, but they appeared - at least by the time of the War of the Ring - as axe-wielding horse-men, fiercely loyal to Mordor.