Kîrani

The Kirani or Kiranâi were a people of the Utter South of Middle-Earth.Their ancestors in the Second Age were believed to had been friends with some of the Avari tribes of the South, the Cuind and Kinn-Lai, a friendship that was still preserved to a degree by those Kirani of Koronande while other men of this old tribal coalition had abandoned their sympathy for the immortals.

While originally the Kiran had been a larger confederacy of different sedentary tribes, of which also the ancestors of the Ganim and Tuktans had once been part, the name Kirani was merely used in the Third Age as a self-identification by the men of Koronande.

Appearance
The Kirani were often considered an exotic but beautiful folk, not only by the northern Haradrim but even by the Númenóreans who usually disdained Lesser Men.Being often tall and slender, with dark bronze to ebony coloured skin and wiry hair, the Kirani suited the Númenórean's ideas of the noble savage and Kiranian girls and women often found themselves victims of slave hunters who dragged them into the slave-markets and harems of the great coastal cities of western Harad.

Culture
Originally the Kirani had been sedentary tribes of the savannas, jungles and bushlands of the farthest south, but in the second age a number of their tribes united to a tribal republic in the lands of Koronande along the southern shores of the Haragaer.These Kirani developed under númenórean and elven influence into a more urban culture of Traders and Craftsmen and still held some contacts and friendship with the neighbouring Elves of Taaliraan.

Language
The Kirani spoke an old Harnerim dialect known as Kiranian or Kiran.