military

Peppers are such destructive and cheap material to cause mass personnel casualties, yet seldom mentioned by JRRT to be used as military weapons, at least according to all the already read sources about JRRT by me. The majority of Free People military operations were mostly defensive positional...

Military staff is absolutely more needed when commanders have more personnel, in particuliar when, at least more than tens of thousands of perssonnel under their command, so...do ME have military staff? Let's discuss this with all kinds of constructive you know, for instances, is Maeglin on the...

Yeah, every political faction in ME, elves in 1st age, almost every Numenor regime and so on, have keeping bunches cases of failed military nationalization for a long time, proved by Noldor's civil wars, Ar-Pharazon coup and so ofrth. The elves have seemed to acheive nationalization of military...

A "what if" scenario has been on my mind today and is as follows -Gollum's deceitful yet brilliant plan to use Shelob to ambush and kill Frodo and Sam works. He regains the One Ring and successfully hides for years, maybe decades or more, somewhere in Middle Earth with his precious. -The...

JRRT did mention that the Wain-riders female civilians were trained enough in military combat to handle Ethod gurellian in the 1856 war, in other words, no wonder that the efficeincy of Wain-riders military reserves assembly really got skills, and might even match Super-Power like Gondor. Any...

Pippin entered the Tower Guard was my motive to ask this question, did he provide any certificate of knighthood such as combat skills and so on, apart from Gandalf's reference? Appointing such unfamiliar guy into possibly the finest military combat units seemed to a bit...any thought? By the...

All JRRT military combat units had their own splendid records apart from Dol Amroth legions, all their combat power describtion record was only Minas-Tirith, yet they're described as eleite combet untis just as they shown for the first time, correct me if I was wrong, did this seem to be a...

I read that while the War of the Ring was taking place, there were minor clashes between evil forces and local people in eriador. What are these wars called? What is the name of these wars?

Does anyone know what Military ranks the armies of Mordor and Gondor would have?

I've seen multiple sources from multiple members stating that there're auxiliary military forces in ME, however, were there any direct sources mentioned from JRRT his works, or there're inffered sources proving such organization did exist in JRRT's world through indirect but confirmed sources...

Everything about military craftsman personnel management are welcomed to left, such as during the battle of Black-Gate during War Of The Ring, why the craftsman personnel mentioned in charge of transport roads maintaince yet not appearing in the war-zone of Black-Gate for fortification by...

There are 22 wars of beleriand with known the including kinslayings. But were there any other nameless and unknown wars that were not one of the six great wars of beleriand, to the extent of military wars, like battle of lammoth, battle of tumhalad, fall of gondolin, fall of falas? for example...

This is certainly worth reading: A blog by military historian Bret Deveraux, who also sometimes does analysis of warfare described in works of fiction, including Lord of the Rings. Primarily of Peter Jackson's movies, but he discusses also how Tolkien himself described it. (Ouf course, the blog...