Easterlings

Those Men who didn't migrate to the west but remained in the east and Rhun, and thus were under the shadow of Melkor and later Sauron. They supplied Sauron with their armies, and almost destroyed Gondor, until the Rohirrim came to its aid.

They were shorter and broader than the Men of the west, stocky and swarthy, and bearded like Dwarves. They were fierce fighters often armed with two handed axes.