In 1970 Fourth Age, during the reign of Elessar IV, house of Telcontar, there arose a movement in the great harbours of Umbar and Pelargir. Dockworkers, angry at the new machines that Lords residing in Minas Anor and Annúminas had begun building to unload the ships returning from the Far East and South began proclaiming that they and their brothers in the textile mills were not getting their fair wages and that the Lords upriver had become corrupt. "Look at their rings!" they cried. "They use rings to identify themselves and we know what comes of rings!" The first riots were brutally put down by the soldiers of the King, but the movement which became known as "Mudanaerthas" only spread with the creation of martyrs for the cause. The riots continued off and on for decades with popular support growing slowly, though the true measure of its spread is said to be when Bodo Brandybuck, Thain of the Shire and member of King's cabinet, was overheard to remark "Well, they are hard workers, I'll given them that, and they're only look for fair wages and six square meals a day."

The workers finally revolted on 7 Ivanneth 2023 Fourth Age, realising that they now controlled the machinery of the factories that supplied the army and in the ensuing two weeks before the proclamation of Gondorian People's Republic many regiments of the south, composed of Haradrim and the sons of the Dunlendings who had migrated south looking for work switched their allegiances to the Mudanaethas. Even the Prince of Dol Amroth threw in with the revolution.

Today, the provinces of the Republic include Belfalas, South Lebennin, Ethir Anduin, South Gondor and Near Harad with sympathetic governments in Núrn and in New Nargothrond to the west of Rhovanion.

The flag consists of the sickle of the workers crossed with the White Tree as symbol of freedom from oppression both in legends of the past and today, with an outline of red symbolizing the blood of the martyrs to the cause,. Black and white are the traditional colours of the Arms of Telcontar in hope that freedom can be brought to all the people of Arnor and Gondor.

This is my submission for Flag Challenge #161 on alternatehistory.com www.alternatehistory.com/forum…