The Lord of the Rings Part 6: The Battle Of The Pelenor Fields

The battle that took place in Gondor at the same time as Dale and Arabor we're being attacked is known as the battle of the Pelenor fields. The field of battle or fields I most likely should say we're located along the river Anduin beside Minis Tirith. The actual fighting began when the Morgul Lord AKA the witchking left Minis Morgul with an army of orcs to seize total control of the white city of the south. Minis Tirith had long been under the protection of the stewards but since the decline of Denathor under the sway of Sauron the war machine of Gondor was forced to turn to Denathor's son Faramer, lord Imrahil of Dol Amroth, and even Gandalf fore true genuine encouragement. The battle seemed to be a defeat to the Gondorians until the Roherim of the Mark came and drove deep in to the ranks of the evil southrons, easternlings, and orcs. In that battle Theodin king of Rohan was slain and so was the Morgul Lord at the hand of Eowin. Also Denathor committed suicide believing that his son was dying and that the enemy had captured the ruling ring. This was incorrect but Ill get back to that later in another blog on luck in Tolkien’s works or something like that. The tide then turned against the forces of good when a black fleet seemingly appeared full of enemies but suddenly the black sailed ships displayed their true standard-- the flag of the kings of Gondor. In other words Aragorn and his friends had captured the ships of their enemies brought them to victory. At this time the orcs and wild evil men broke ranks and fled. Few could endure the face of Aragorn in his wrath or lord Eomer son of Theodin now king of Rohan. These two captains returned to their men in triumph but Aragorn could not enter the city willingly with out triggering chaos and conflict among the royal family or the friends of Denathor the accursed. Therefore in response to this victory Aragorn decided to follow the advise of Gandalf and march out against the dark lord on the very soil of Mordor itself. This distracted the red eye long enough fore Frodo to to bring the one ring to mount doom where it was unmade and the power of Sauron flushed out fore all time. This was the chief importance of the battle of the Pelenor and the heroism of the friends of Frodo the hobbit. You may remember that in the movie Aragorn arrives with a ghost army to turn the tide of battle at the fields of Pelenor while in the book this supernatural army is not present at the actual conflict outside the gates of Gondor.

I wish to thank my good friend Matt Lewis who’s help in issuing these bogs has been monumental in achieving the release of Tolkien's ultimate blog series that I am most privileged to write. May your swords always stay sharp.