PJ seems to be in love with large cavalry charges, as it seems in all the LotR movies, cavalry charges just utterly own everything in sight. And then the Rohirrim show up and utterly destroy Mordor's army. In fact, other than that one orc that got slammed into the ground with a spear when the gate was breached, and a few that got chokeslammed later, I don't think I ever saw a Gondorrim outright kill an orc in combat. However, there were more elsewhere, to defend the river and the rest of Gondor. ![]() We do know from the chapter Minas Tirith in the book that fewer than three thousand came from the outlying lands to defend Minas Tirith in the siege. It seems that for every one orc that dies, three Gondorrim go down with him. It’s not clear how many troops Gondor had in total. Now, in the films, Gondor is just portrayed as possibly the weakest kingdom. Then, as the Rohirrim flanked the Orcish hordes, the soldiers of Gondor charged out through the gate to offer their support. Then, as Grond broke through the gate, the Witch-King rode into the city, had his confrontation with Gandalf, and the Rohirrim arrived. ![]() ![]() Reading Tolkien's original description of the battle, I remember the orcs of Mordor taking massive casualties, but at the same time systematically driving back the Gondorrim through the weight of numbers.
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