The Germanic studies scholar Sandra Ballif Straubhaar notes that it is not clear whether Tolkien meant the Haradrim to be grouped with his Wild Men, though he named them as ancient enemies of Gondor. They are ethnic others but not as ugly, they have a rich culture and well-trained elephants. The exception would be, she suggests, the men of Far [Southern] Harad whom the people of Gondor saw as black men like half-trolls with white eyes and red tongues. With his Southrons from Harad, Tolkien had - in the view of John Magoun, writing in the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia - constructed a fully expressed moral geography, from the hobbits' home in the Northwest, evil in the East, and imperial sophistication and decadence in the South. Magoun explains that Gondor is both virtuous, being West, and has problems, being South; Mordor in the Southeast is hellish, while Harad in the extreme South regresses into hot savagery.