The Amrog-dorn (G.:"Brown wanderers, Gypsies") were a peculiar culture of Nomads known in the Westlands for centuries.They lived mostly on small wagons and made their living as migratory workers, craftsmen, tinkers, sometimes even traveling circus entertainers, on occasion mixing with other traveling people such as the eriadorian tinker-folk, homeless dwarves or Northron Strays. They themselves however were thought not to be originally native to the Westlands.Their language, customs and appearance made people suggest them to be of Easterling or Haradron origin while the Amrog-dorn themselves told different and contradicting histories, some professing to be religious pilgrims, refugees from the Dark domains, former slaves or even the descendants of númenórean princes from the Harad coast. Whatever the truth might have been, the Westerners attitude towards them was ambivalent, while they usually estimated their craftsmanship and art they also sometimes suggested them to be thieves, witches, rogues or even potential spies.
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The "Amrog-dorn" appear in one of J. R. R. Tolkien's early elvish wordlists but are never described as a culture.His intention for inventing the word had been originally to translate the british placename "Gypsie's green" into his elven languages.