Silmarillion: the Teleri at Alqualonde. Those folks needed all the help they could get!
Lord of the Rings: Halbarad. I've always admired his character--he traveled all the way to Rivendell and then to Rohan with the banner, on what couldn't have been good information on Aragorn's location (it's not as though he was exactly standing still during that part of the story), and in the case of an attack he would have been hobbled by the very banner--I would imagine it's rather a tricky thing to draw sword while holding such an unwieldy object.
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