The Haradrim lived in the hot, arid southlands of Middle Earth, where the conditions were terrible and as such it was all but impossible for life to flourish. But nevertheless some groups of men settled here and via a nomadic lifestyle and also the lush jungles found in some parts of Harad, managed to survive and even flourish. Coming to be ruled mercilessly by Numenoreans who had been corrupted by Sauron, the Haradrim came to hate the men of the North and West, and as a result turned to worshipping Sauron, unaware that he was in fact the cause of their woes. Soon becoming some of his most fanatically dedicated servants, the Haradrim readily agreed to join in Sauron's war on the Men of the West and North, in particular Gondor, who were supposedly descended from the Haradrim's old oppresso