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Originally Posted by Formendacil
2. Details of Númenórean technology and culture from the turn of the Age. This is the closest look we'll ever get to the great armies of the late 2nd Age (even though it's technically the beginning of the Third). Isildur's company probably looks, in miniature, not that much different from Ar-Pharazôn's army that landed in Umbar.
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This chapter gave an insight, however brief, of the battle tactics used by the armies of the west, and was again employed by Aragorn in the final battle before the Black Gate.
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Originally Posted by Formendacil
EDIT: An additional thought, that I mean to include: in this tale, one of the footnotes makes mention of what must surely be the sort of blade that the Hobbits acquire in the Barrow-downs:
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From my original readings of the Appendices, I always had it in my head that the north were more
Númenórean in their thinking. My 1st reading of Unfinished Tales - The Disaster of the Gladden Fields footnotes had also confirmed what I had expected about the swords of Westernesse that the Hobbits acquired.