Question about the Grey Company - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

William Cloud Hicklin · 12-03-2020, 10:24 PM

Since the Corsair fleet supposedly numbered fifty "great ships" and scores of lesser ones, and since Aragorn packed them full (remember, the forces he sent marching north on foot were just the ones that wouldn't fit)- and since T also uses the term "dromonds", which I think refers to the "great ships," we are talking about 50 ships of ca. 300 men apiece (the size of a Byzantine dromond), or 15,000 men in the 'great ships' alone.

Also, besides the Lebennin men who had actually been fighting at Pelargir, there was also a substantial number of other Gondorians who had followed A. once the terrifying Dead had passed.

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Having said that, the Dunedain were probably superb fighters, worth way more than 30 ordinary fyrdsmen.

12-03-2020, 10:24 PM	#9
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Since the Corsair fleet supposedly numbered fifty "great ships" and scores of lesser ones, and since Aragorn packed them full (remember, the forces he sent marching north on foot were just the ones that wouldn't fit)- and since T also uses the term "dromonds", which I think refers to the "great ships," we are talking about 50 ships of ca. 300 men apiece (the size of a Byzantine dromond), or 15,000 men in the 'great ships' alone. Also, besides the Lebennin men who had actually been fighting at Pelargir, there was also a substantial number of other Gondorians who had followed A. once the terrifying Dead had passed. --------------------- Having said that, the Dunedain were probably superb fighters, worth way more than 30 ordinary fyrdsmen. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.