The short version: (Yes, believe it - Bruce is capable of a short version without extensive documentation quoted in the reply - lol)
The Dead Men of the Paths of the Dead were Men, not Elves, as the inhabitants of Gondolin were.
Aragorn could command them because they had broken an oath to Isildur, and Aragorn was his heir and could redeem that oath.
__________________
`A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'
|