#BATTLES OF THE THIRD AGE FREE#

The bat host is already swarming above the valley of Dale. A vanguard of Wargs and Wolves, followed by Warg riders of Goblin Town, lead the masses of Gundabad.

#BATTLES OF THE THIRD AGE FREE#

Pre-battle deployments and dispositions.Дifferences ignored in the face of a common threat, the free peoples shake their armies out into a defensive battle planвЂ¦Д«ard and a small company of Men and Elves race up the east-ridge and witness the oncoming horde streaming like a river out of the north. See the APPENDIX at page bottom for list of combatants and units. Some liberties and extrapolations have been taken with the allies of Gundabad. But what actually happened in this epicВ confrontation? How did the tiny forces ofВ Thranduil, Dain and Bard defeat BolgвЂ™s massive horde of Goblins and Wolves? How did the variousВ battlefield decisions affect the outcome? What do the writings of Mr Baggins and other contemporary observers tell us, and what does the benefit of hindsight suggest could have been done differentlyвЂ¦ The ArmiesДЄn approximation of the armies and their components has been made based on records, payrolls, muster registers, first-hand accounts, treatises and oral lore. The Battle of the Five Armies:В a post combat analysis fromВ the book, The Hobbit.ДЄrguably the second lastВ decisive engagement of the Third Age, the Battle of the Five Armies made Northern Rhovanion and Eregion noticeably safer for a close to a century.

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