Balchoth

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The Balchoth were a fierce group of Easterlings that served the Dark Lord Sauron and were hostile to Gondor.

History

Like their kinsmen, the Wainriders, whom the Balchoth could be said to have succeeded, they rode in chariots and wagons.^[1] Being under the influence of Sauron, who was still concealed in Dol Guldur, they began to migrate westwards, settling in the lands between Mirkwood and the River Running. The Easterlings often made incursions into the territories of the Northmen of Rhovanion and their numbers were increased by other wicked Men from Rhûn.

Stirred by Sauron, the Balchoth finally attacked Gondor in TA 2510 and were joined by Northern Orcs pouring out of the Misty Mountains. They overran the plains of Calenardhon and almost destroyed the army of the Ruling Steward Cirion, but the Eastern invaders and their Orc allies were defeated by the Éothéod under Eorl the Young at the Battle of the Field of Celebrant; the entire host was pursued and slaughtered by Eorl and his horsemen. The Balchoth do not reappear in sources after this, although Easterlings continued to trouble Rohan, killing Eorl and finally being driven off by his son, Brego.

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Amharic	ባልጮጥ
Arabic	بالشوث
Armenian	Բալխոտհ
Belarusian Cyrillic	Балчот
Bengali	বাল্ছথ
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Балчот
Danish	Balchoth (østerlinge)
Georgian	ბალხოთი
Greek	Βαλχοθ
Gujarati	બાલ્ચોથ
Hebrew	באלכות
Hindi	बालचोथ
Japanese	バルホス
Kannada	ಬಾಲ್ಚೋತ್
Kazakh	Балцһот (Cyrillic) Balchot (Latin)
Korean	발치
Kyrgyz Cyrillic	Балцhотh ?
Macedonian Cyrillic	Балчотх
Marathi	बल्चोथ
Mongolian Cyrillic	Балчотh
Nepalese	बल्छोथ
Pashto	بالچهوته ?
Persian	بالخوت‌ها
Polish	Balkowie
Punjabi	ਬਾਲਚੌਥ
Russian	Балхот
Sanskrit	बल्छोथ्
Serbian	Балцхот (Cyrillic) Balchot (Latin)
Sinhalese	බල්ඡොථ්
Tajik Cyrillic	Балчҳот
Tamil	பால்சோத்
Telugu	బాల్చొత్
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Балхоти
Urdu	بالچوت
Uzbek	Балчот (Cyrillic) Balchot (Latin)
Yiddish	באַלטשאָטה

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