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 Post subject: War of the Ring army numbers
PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:33 pm 
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Does anybody have any references to the approximate force numbers for various factions during the War of the Ring?

For example, their were 1000 Rohirrim, 500 KoDA, 2000 from the Feifdoms with Aragorn and 3500 with Imrahil from Minas Tirith at the battle of Morannon.

Anybody have any other numbers so a list could be put together? Or even guesses?

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 Post subject: Re: War of the Ring army numbers
PostPosted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:42 pm 
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Just google the name of the battle and the first entry should be a wiki, click on it and it shoud say the numbers somewhere! For example I googled battle of the hornburg and got this:
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In the book, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, the size of the initial garrison at Helm's Deep for Rohan was nearly 1,000, but many more were coming into the fort from across Rohan. The estimated number of total Rohirrim defenders is 2,000[1] by the time Saruman's army arrived. Merry says that the force that left Isengard numbered 10,000 at least, most marching towards Helm's Deep and others heading off to the Fords of Isen. This number is later qualified by Gandalf: "I have about ten thousand Orcs to manage.",[2] so considerably more than 10,000 when the Men of Dunland are added. Though the battle appears severely lopsided, as Uruk-hai were much better in battle than simple orcs, the defenders managed to hold the fort until a force of nearly 1,000 men on foot[3] led by Gandalf along with a forest of Huorns arrive at dawn in the rear of the hosts of Isengard and surround the Uruks.

Simples! :-D

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This is the sort of article being referred to above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armies_and ... th_warfare
There are other sources in the books themselves, either in the prose or in the reference/appendices.

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