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Ibid. "Thranduil his son survived, but when the war ended...he led back home barely a third of the army that had marched to war."

The Silmarillion, p. 294. "Then Gil-galad and Elendil passed into Mordor and encompassed the stronghold of Sauron; and they laid siege to it for seven years, and suffered grievous loss by fire and by the darts and bolts of the Enemy, and Sauron sent many sorties against them."

Ibid. "...There in the valley of Gorgoroth Anarion son of Elendil was slain, and many others."

Morgoth's Ring, p. 420. "Nonetheless Sauron in time managed to unite [all the Orcs] in unreasoning hatred of the Elves and of Men who associated with them; while the Orcs of his own trained armies were so completely under his will that they would sacrifice themselves without hesitation at his command." The Return Of The King, p. 227. "...As when death smites the swollen brooding thing that inhabits their crawling hill and holds them all in sway, ants will wander witless and purposeless and then feebly die, so the creatures of Sauron, orc or troll or beast spell-enslaved, ran hither and thither mindless; and some slew themselves, or cast themselves in pits, or fled waiting back to hide in holes and dark lightless places far from hope."

Ibid., "...But the Men of Rhun and Harad, Easterling and Southron, saw the ruin of their war and the great majesty and glory of the Captains of the West. And those that were deepest and longest in evil servitude, hating the West, and yet were men proud and bold, in their turn now gathered themselves for a last stand of desperate battle."

The Silmarillion, p. 294. "The Dark Tower was levelled to the ground, yet its foundations remained, and it was not forgotten. The Numenoreans indeed set a guard upon the land of Mordor...."

Ibid., p. 298. "In Eriador Imladris was the chief dwelling of the High Elves; but at the Grey Havens of Lindon there abode also a remnant of the people of Gil-galad the Elvenking." Cirdan did in fact retain enough Elves, or their numbers recovered enough, to assist the Dunedain of Arnor on at least three occasions in the Third Age, but he was never able to raise an army like Gil-galad's. Literature Carpenter, Humphrey. The Letters Of J.R.R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. Tolkien, Christopher, ed.

• Morgoth's Ring, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
• The Return Of The Shadow, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988.
• The Treason Of Isengard, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.

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