Don't let Peter Jackson's movies deceive you. Gondor was the mightiest human realm by the end of the Third Age. It had endured nearly one thousand years of attacks from Mor...
To serve as the "good mooks"
In the majority of movies, there are always certain fighters that seem to exist for the express purpose of having someone for the heroes to easi...
Sauron's campaign against Minas Tirith, like Saruman's against the Rohirrim, was amazing effort. Winter campaigns are always arduous and expensive, and March is still winter.
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It's a crime how Gondor was portrayed in the movies. Gondor has been the stalwart holding back Mordor and her allies for millennia. They have repelled many invasions. Their...
ROHAN
Rohan is comparable to Ango Saxon England, as Tolkien burrowed/was inspired with the names of the characters and the places in Old English with Scandinavian additions....
Interesting premise, but geographically it doesn't make sense.
Here is a map showing Isengard at the very top (from Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of Middle-earth ):
You notice t...
They may be both kingdoms of Men, but they are quite different. I shall list the differences out.
'Forlong!' men shouted. 'True heart, true friend! Forlong!' But when the men of Lossarnach had passed they muttered: 'So few! Two hundreds, what are they? We hoped for ten ...
Easily Mordor, Tolkien himself states as such.
"A strong place and wonderful was Isengard, and long it had been beautiful; and there great lords had dwelt, the wardens of Go...
Gondor's, without question.
Even with the marshaling of the host, on what could very well have been the last riding of the Eorlingas, Rohan could only manage to put together...
