#for context i'm an anglo living in south texas so i will not speak with even a shred of authority on La Malinche

[squirrelwrangler]

Already had this brainstorm in a discussion tangent w/ @absynthe--minded, y’all know me and thinking about Umbar and the Kin-strife of Gondor for the fics that need to be written.

Context, you have to recognize who Cortez and Malinche aka Dona Mariana were in Mexican history. So yeah, now adding the Conquering and Colonization of Mexico and Central America to my Japanese Civil War. But finally here’s the story of Castamir’s son when they flee to Umbar. Or conversely going back to Earnil and Gondor’s conquest of Umbar (which would then also have to tie into Earnil’s aunt by marriage, Berúthiel).

But- Umbar is ruled by Black Númenoreans aka ones that followed the Sauron-established worship of Melkor that involved captured people sacrificed on altars. Now one of the biggest factors to Cortez and the Spanish conquest of the Aztec was, aside from military tech and disease, was that Cortez via Malinche’s linguistic and diplomatic cunning was able to ally with the various subject nations and rivals of the Aztecs. So, late into the Third Age Umbar and the regions of Harad still tell of their own Lady Luin, a woman of Harad who helped the Gondorian prince overthrow the first Black Númenorean monarchy- and whether or not she was a traitor to her people.