https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=War_of_the_Ring&feed=atom&action=historyWar of the Ring - Revision history2024-03-28T23:58:33ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.3https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=War_of_the_Ring&diff=386434&oldid=prevNotJesper: Edited for clarity and grammar.2024-02-25T15:23:52Z<p>Edited for clarity and grammar.</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at all times </del>held the military advantage <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">War, </del>due to his overwhelming forces<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; not only </del>[[Orcs]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>[[Trolls]], <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but </del>[[Haradrim|Men of Harad]] and the [[East]]. His main objective was to overthrow [[Gondor]], his neighbour and the strongest of his enemies. He had such forces at his command, though, that he was able to fight the war on many fronts, simultaneously attacking [[Dale]], [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]] and the [[Elves of Mirkwood|Wood-elves]] in the far north, and [[Lothlórien]] from his secondary stronghold at [[Dol Guldur]].<ref name="AB" /> There can be no doubt that, had the Wise not achieved and maintained possession of the Ring, Sauron would ultimately have been victorious.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron held the military advantage <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">throughout </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">war </ins>due to his overwhelming forces [[Orcs]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>[[Trolls]], <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>[[Haradrim|Men of Harad]] and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </ins>the [[East]]. His main objective was to overthrow [[Gondor]], his neighbour and the strongest of his enemies. He had such forces at his command, though, that he was able to fight the war on many fronts, simultaneously attacking [[Dale]], [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]] and the [[Elves of Mirkwood|Wood-elves]] in the far north, and [[Lothlórien]] from his secondary stronghold at [[Dol Guldur]].<ref name="AB" /> There can be no doubt that, had the Wise not achieved and maintained possession of the Ring, Sauron would ultimately have been victorious.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The policy of the Wise was based around the [[Quest of the Ring]]: a company of nine under the leadership of [[Gandalf]] travelled from [[Rivendell]] with the One Ring, with the hope of taking it to [[Orodruin]] in [[Mordor]] and there destroying it. As a consequence of much of Sauron's native power being within the ring, they realised that in unmaking it, they would also defeat its creator.<ref name="Council">{{FR|Council}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The policy of the Wise was based around the [[Quest of the Ring]]: a company of nine under the leadership of [[Gandalf]] travelled from [[Rivendell]] with the One Ring, with the hope of taking it to [[Orodruin]] in [[Mordor]] and there destroying it. As a consequence of much of Sauron's native power being within the ring, they realised that in unmaking it, they would also defeat its creator.<ref name="Council">{{FR|Council}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron had been defeated in the [[War of the Last Alliance]], but because of Isildur's refusal to destroy [[the One Ring]], he was not entirely vanquished.<ref name="Shadow">{{FR|Shadow}}</ref><ref name="Council" />He survived in spirit form, and the foundations of Barad-dûr were also not destroyed. Sauron's spirit wandered the wastelands of Middle-earth for over 1000 years, but eventually he rebuilt his power and became a threat once again. Around {{TA|1000}}, the [[Valar]] sent [[Maiar]] [[Wizards|emissaries]] to [[Middle-earth]] to help the [[Free peoples]] against the growing evil.<ref name="TA" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron had been defeated in the [[War of the Last Alliance]], but because of Isildur's refusal to destroy [[the One Ring]], he was not entirely vanquished.<ref name="Shadow">{{FR|Shadow}}</ref><ref name="Council" /> He survived in spirit form, and the foundations of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Barad-dûr<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>were also not destroyed. Sauron's spirit wandered the wastelands of Middle-earth for over 1000 years, but eventually he rebuilt his power and became a threat once again. Around {{TA|1000}}, the [[Valar]] sent [[Maiar]] [[Wizards|emissaries]] to [[Middle-earth]] to help the [[Free peoples]] against the growing evil.<ref name="TA" /></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Indeed, Orcs and other wicked things were multiplying and the [[Witch-king]] from his fortress in [[Angmar]] waged unending war against [[Arnor]]. [[Moria]] and [[Minas Ithil]] fell and were abandoned, among other battles, plagues, and catastrophes that ended the Kingdom of Arnor and the Royal line of [[Gondor]]. The evil entity known only as the [[Necromancer]] fled from [[Dol Guldur]] because of Gandalf, allowing for some centuries of calmness.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Indeed, Orcs and other wicked things were multiplying and the [[Witch-king]] from his fortress in [[Angmar]] waged unending war against [[Arnor]]. [[Moria]] and [[Minas Ithil]] fell and were abandoned, among other battles, plagues, and catastrophes that ended the Kingdom of Arnor and the Royal line of [[Gondor]]. The evil entity known only as the [[Necromancer]] fled from [[Dol Guldur]] because of Gandalf, allowing for some centuries of calmness.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the meantime, Sauron's One Ring was found by two of the [[Stoors]] in the [[Gladden River]]. The Hobbit who got it, under its influence, was corrupted as [[Gollum]] and eventually retreated into the [[Goblin-town]] under the [[Misty Mountains]].By the end of the Age, Sauron attempted to gather back all the Rings to augment his power. He took the Nine, but of the Seven he managed to reclaim only three, the last of them being the [[Ring of Thrór]]<ref>"the Nine [Sauron] has gathered to himself; the Seven also, or else they are destroyed." {{FR|Shadow}}</ref><ref>"You saw the Eye of him that holds the Seven and the Nine." {{FR|mirror}}</ref> but could not find the One.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the meantime, Sauron's One Ring was found by two of the [[Stoors]] in the [[Gladden River]]. The Hobbit who got it, under its influence, was corrupted as [[Gollum]] and eventually retreated into the [[Goblin-town]] under the [[Misty Mountains]]. By the end of the Age, Sauron attempted to gather back all the Rings to augment his power. He took the Nine, but of the Seven he managed to reclaim only three, the last of them being the [[Ring of Thrór]]<ref>"the Nine [Sauron] has gathered to himself; the Seven also, or else they are destroyed." {{FR|Shadow}}</ref><ref>"You saw the Eye of him that holds the Seven and the Nine." {{FR|mirror}}</ref> but could not find the One.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[26 February|next day]] while the [[Fellowship of the Ring|Company of the Ring]] was in the [[Emyn Muil]] thinking whether to take the Ring to Minas Tirith or go directly to Mordor, Orcs from Isengard attempted to capture the Ring-bearer; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but </del>instead <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </del>took Merry and Pippin as prisoners.<ref>{{FR|Breaking}}</ref> Éomer hearing of the descent of the Orc-band set out from [[Eastfold]] against Théoden's orders and overtook them outside [[Fangorn Forest]], unknowingly setting the hobbits free.<ref name="AB" /><ref>{{TT|Riders}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[26 February|next day]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>while the [[Fellowship of the Ring|Company of the Ring]] was in the [[Emyn Muil]] thinking whether to take the Ring to Minas Tirith or go directly to Mordor, Orcs from Isengard attempted to capture the Ring-bearer; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </ins>instead took Merry and Pippin as prisoners.<ref>{{FR|Breaking}}</ref> Éomer<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>hearing of the descent of the Orc-band<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>set out from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>[[Eastfold]] against Théoden's orders and overtook them outside [[Fangorn Forest]], unknowingly setting the hobbits free.<ref name="AB" /><ref>{{TT|Riders}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Having heard the news about Théodred's death, [[Erkenbrand]], who became the commander of Rohan's western armies, gathered the forces of Grimbold and Elfhelm to assault Isen once more in the [[Second Battle of the Fords of Isen]] ([[2 March]]). Though they had a force of about 2000 men and had constructed a shield wall to hold off the enemy, Saruman's forces overcame them and scattered the retreating Rohirrim across Rohan.<ref name="Isen" /><ref name="Deep">{{TT|Deep}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Having heard the news about Théodred's death, [[Erkenbrand]], who became the commander of Rohan's western armies, gathered the forces of Grimbold and Elfhelm to assault Isen once more in the [[Second Battle of the Fords of Isen]] ([[2 March]]). Though they had a force of about 2000 men and had constructed a shield wall to hold off the enemy, Saruman's forces overcame them and scattered the retreating Rohirrim across Rohan.<ref name="Isen" /><ref name="Deep">{{TT|Deep}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Saruman's victory would not last<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; he </del>did not know that on the very same day, Gandalf had healed Théoden from [[Gríma|Wormtongue]]'s influence. In the meantime, the [[Ents]] after ending their long [[Entmoot]], decided to go to [[Isengard]] and battle Saruman.<ref name="AB" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Saruman's victory would not last<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. He </ins>did not know that on the very same day, Gandalf had healed Théoden from [[Gríma|Wormtongue]]'s influence. In the meantime, the [[Ents]] after ending their long [[Entmoot]], decided to go to [[Isengard]] and battle Saruman.<ref name="AB" /></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The next day ([[3 March]]), seeking to take the fight away from his people, Théoden brought around a thousand horsemen to the [[Fords of Isen]] along with any others in [[Edoras]]. Among this force were [[Éomer]], [[Aragorn]], [[Gimli]] and [[Legolas]]. On their way they found [[Ceorl]] who reported a defeat to the Fords; Théoden then redirected his troops to [[Helm's Deep]], which was commanded by [[Gamling]] in his lord Erkenbrand's absence. Against overwhelming odds, they fought the [[Battle of the Hornburg]] for two days against [[Uruk-hai]] and [[Dunlendings]], until the [[Deeping Wall]] was breached and all seemed lost. The surviving horsemen rode out to meet the hordes of Isengard.<ref name="Deep" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The next day ([[3 March]]), seeking to take the fight away from his people, Théoden brought around a thousand horsemen to the [[Fords of Isen]] along with any others in [[Edoras]]. Among this force were [[Éomer]], [[Aragorn]], [[Gimli]] and [[Legolas]]. On their way they found [[Ceorl]] who reported a defeat to the Fords; Théoden then redirected his troops to [[Helm's Deep]], which was commanded by [[Gamling]] in his lord Erkenbrand's absence. Against overwhelming odds, they fought the [[Battle of the Hornburg]] for two days against [[Uruk-hai]] and [[Dunlendings]], until the [[Deeping Wall]] was breached and all seemed lost. The surviving horsemen rode out to meet the hordes of Isengard.<ref name="Deep" /></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Denethor|Denethor II]] sent Faramir to Osgiliath to [[Faramir's defence of Osgiliath|intercept the Morgul-host]]. The Witch-King led the assault upon the western side the next morning aided by boats built in secret, and swiftly overwhelmed the defenders <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> and on </del>[[13 March]] Faramir retreated to the [[Causeway Forts]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </del>Gandalf, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">upon </del>learning the Witch-King <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">field, </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">14 March|the next day</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">went from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">city </del>to the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rammas Echor where </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">forces which had fallen back</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">taken </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blasting stones</del>, and a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">charge </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Prince </del>[[Imrahil]] and the Knights of [[Dol Amroth]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">saved Faramir who fell wounded by an Easterling champion</del>.<ref name="siege" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Denethor|Denethor II]] sent Faramir to Osgiliath to [[Faramir's defence of Osgiliath|intercept the Morgul-host]]. The Witch-King led the assault upon the western side the next morning aided by boats built in secret, and swiftly overwhelmed the defenders<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. On </ins>[[13 March]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>Faramir retreated to the [[Causeway Forts]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </ins>Gandalf, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">after </ins>learning <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">about </ins>the Witch-King<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, joined Faramir's forces to defend </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rammas Echor</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. However, Sauron's forces breached the walls with blasting stones, and wrecked </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Forts. The defenders had </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">retreat across </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pelennor fields, with Faramir protecting </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rear-guard</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">overtaken </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cavalry from Harad</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poisoned by </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dart, but was saved by a sortie led </ins>by [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Imrahil|Prince </ins>Imrahil]] and the Knights of [[Dol Amroth]].<ref name="siege" /></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As Pelennor was overrun, Denethor sent a sortie of cavalry to assist the defenders who retreated back to the city. </del>Denethor, upon seeing his son <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in this grave state</del>, lost his will to fight and gave no more thought to the defence of his city<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. He was seriously wounded while [[Pelennor Fields|Pelennor]] was overrun</del>. The [[Siege of Gondor]] began.<ref name="siege" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Denethor, upon seeing his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wounded </ins>son<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and the fields of Pelennor overran</ins>, lost his will to fight and gave no more thought to the defence of his city. The [[Siege of Gondor]] began.<ref name="siege" /></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Meanwhile, invaders from [[Umbar]] and [[Harad]] who sought to capture [[Linhir]] and the fords of the River [[Gilrain]]. The men of [[Lamedon]] fought against them and the arrival of Aragorn with the Army of the Dead from [[Erech]] terrified both sides. As Aragorn pressed on to [[Pelargir]], [[Angbor]] mustered as many horsemen as he could, helped by the fast-spreading rumor of the return of the [[Heir of Isildur]]. Soon later the group reached Pelargir, drove the Corsairs away and captured their [[Black Ships|fleet]].<ref name="Debate">{{RK|Debate}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Meanwhile, invaders from [[Umbar]] and [[Harad]] who sought to capture [[Linhir]] and the fords of the River [[Gilrain]]. The men of [[Lamedon]] fought against them and the arrival of Aragorn with the Army of the Dead from [[Erech]] terrified both sides. As Aragorn pressed on to [[Pelargir]], [[Angbor]] mustered as many horsemen as he could, helped by the fast-spreading rumor of the return of the [[Heir of Isildur]]. Soon later the group reached Pelargir, drove the Corsairs away and captured their [[Black Ships|fleet]].<ref name="Debate">{{RK|Debate}}</ref></div></td></tr>
</table>NotJesperhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=War_of_the_Ring&diff=384015&oldid=prevHyarion: Correcting minor syntax2023-12-23T06:52:20Z<p>Correcting minor syntax</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A year before the war, while Gollum was looking for his ring, he was taken to Mordor and interrogated by Sauron, who learned that the One Ring was in the possession of a "[[Baggins]]" in a place called "the Shire".<ref name="<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Shadows</del>"> However, Sauron was led into thinking that the Shire was on the banks of the Gladden River.<ref>{{UT|10}}</ref> Gollum was then set free, but caught by [[Aragorn]], who placed him in the care of the [[Silvan Elves]] and held him in [[Mirkwood]].<ref name="TA" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A year before the war, while Gollum was looking for his ring, he was taken to Mordor and interrogated by Sauron, who learned that the One Ring was in the possession of a "[[Baggins]]" in a place called "the Shire".<ref name="<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Shadow</ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">></ref</ins>> However, Sauron was led into thinking that the Shire was on the banks of the Gladden River.<ref <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name="hunt"</ins>>{{UT|10}}</ref> Gollum was then set free, but caught by [[Aragorn]], who placed him in the care of the [[Silvan Elves]] and held him in [[Mirkwood]].<ref name="TA" /></div></td></tr>
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</table>Hyarionhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=War_of_the_Ring&diff=384011&oldid=prevÉowyn: Reference should finally be fixed, if not i'm throwing myself off Barad-dûr2023-12-23T05:26:03Z<p>Reference should finally be fixed, if not i'm throwing myself off Barad-dûr</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A year before the war, while Gollum was looking for his ring, he was taken to Mordor and interrogated by Sauron, who learned that the One Ring was in the possession of a "[[Baggins]]" in a place called "the Shire".<ref name="Shadows"> However, Sauron was led into thinking that the Shire was on the banks of the Gladden River.<ref <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name=hunt</del>>{{UT|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hunt</del>}}</ref> Gollum was then set free, but caught by [[Aragorn]], who placed him in the care of the [[Silvan Elves]] and held him in [[Mirkwood]].<ref name="TA" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A year before the war, while Gollum was looking for his ring, he was taken to Mordor and interrogated by Sauron, who learned that the One Ring was in the possession of a "[[Baggins]]" in a place called "the Shire".<ref name="Shadows"> However, Sauron was led into thinking that the Shire was on the banks of the Gladden River.<ref>{{UT|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">10</ins>}}</ref> Gollum was then set free, but caught by [[Aragorn]], who placed him in the care of the [[Silvan Elves]] and held him in [[Mirkwood]].<ref name="TA" /></div></td></tr>
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</table>Éowynhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=War_of_the_Ring&diff=384010&oldid=prevÉowyn at 05:22, 23 December 20232023-12-23T05:22:35Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The policy of the Wise was based around the [[Quest of the Ring]]: a company of nine under the leadership of [[Gandalf]] travelled from [[Rivendell]] with the One Ring, with the hope of taking it to [[Orodruin]] in [[Mordor]] and there destroying it. As a consequence of much of Sauron's native power being within the ring, they realised that in unmaking it, they would also defeat its creator.<ref name="Council">{{FR|Council}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The policy of the Wise was based around the [[Quest of the Ring]]: a company of nine under the leadership of [[Gandalf]] travelled from [[Rivendell]] with the One Ring, with the hope of taking it to [[Orodruin]] in [[Mordor]] and there destroying it. As a consequence of much of Sauron's native power being within the ring, they realised that in unmaking it, they would also defeat its creator.<ref name="Council">{{FR|Council}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Having renounced the Wise, Saruman had become Sauron's two-faced servant. In an alliance with the [[Dunlendings]], and having [[Orcs]] at his command, he resolved to remove [[Rohan]] as a threat to his Dark Lord, but he also attempted to claim the Ring first when opportunities arose. Until late in the War, he held the advantage, defeating Rohan twice at the [[Battles of the Fords of Isen]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Having renounced the Wise, Saruman had become Sauron's two-faced servant. In an alliance with the [[Dunlendings]], and having [[Orcs]] at his command, he resolved to remove [[Rohan]] as a threat to his Dark Lord, but he also attempted to claim the Ring first when opportunities arose. Until late in the War, he held the advantage, defeating Rohan twice at the [[Battles of the Fords of Isen]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Along with the Darkness, a host from [[Minas Morgul]] set forth toward Minas Tirith, as witnessed by Frodo, Sam, and Gollum who passed the [[Cross-roads]]. Later Orcs from the [[Morannon]] took [[Cair Andros]] and passed into [[Anórien]].<ref name="AB" /> [[Denethor|Denethor II]] called the [[Council of Gondor]] together on that day and it advised him to make no stroke of war against the enemy due to the threat from the south.<ref name="siege" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Along with the Darkness, a host from [[Minas Morgul]] set forth toward Minas Tirith, as witnessed by Frodo, Sam, and Gollum who passed the [[Cross-roads]]. Later Orcs from the [[Morannon]] took [[Cair Andros]] and passed into [[Anórien]].<ref name="AB" /> [[Denethor|Denethor II]] called the [[Council of Gondor]] together on that day and it advised him to make no stroke of war against the enemy due to the threat from the south.<ref name="siege" /></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Rohirrim mustered their Riders and rode from Harrowdale,<ref>{{RK|Ride}}</ref> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while Aragorn led the [[Oathbreakers|Army of the Dead]] and the Grey Company, across the river [[Ringló]]. <ref name="AB" while="" </del>preparing<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>against<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" gondor</del>,<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" sauron="" </del>also<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>began<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>campaigns<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>to<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>conquer<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rhovanion</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wilderland</del>]],<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>activating<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>his<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>armies<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>stationed<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>in<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dol="" guldur</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>and<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>eastern<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>allies.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" this="" </del>would<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>bring<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>the<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>half<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>of<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" middle</del>-earth<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>entirely<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>into<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>dominion.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" on="" </del>[[11<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" march</del>]],<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" orcs="" </del>from<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" dol="" guldur="" </del>[[assaults<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" lothlórien</del>|attacked]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lothlórien</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eastemnet</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eastern</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" rohan</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>[[12<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" march</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the="" </del>next<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>day]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>invaders<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" rohan="" </del>were<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>utterly<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>defeated<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">="" </del>by="" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ents.<ref </del>/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Rohirrim mustered their Riders and rode from Harrowdale,<ref>{{RK|Ride}}</ref> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While </ins>preparing against <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gondor</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sauron </ins>also began campaigns to conquer [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rhovanion</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wilderland</ins>]], activating his armies stationed in [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dol Guldur</ins>]] and eastern allies. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This </ins>would bring the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eastern </ins>half of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Middle</ins>-earth entirely into <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his </ins>dominion. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On </ins>[[11 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">March</ins>]], <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Orcs </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dol Guldur </ins>[[assaults <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on Lothlórien</ins>|attacked]] [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lothlórien</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Eastemnet</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Eastern</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rohan</ins>. [[12 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">March</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>next day]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>invaders <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of Rohan </ins>were utterly defeated by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ents.<ref name</ins>="<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AB</ins>"/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Gondor, Most of the citizens were sent north and west; except those in the arts of healing and boys who refused to leave.<ref>{{RK|Pyre}}</ref> The same day, 3,000 men from [[Belfalas]], [[Dol Amroth]] and other places arrived to assist the garrison. But, it was less than a tenth of what was needed. Most that were needed were holding off the [[Corsairs of Umbar|Black Fleet]] of [[Umbar]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In Gondor, Most of the citizens were sent north and west; except those in the arts of healing and boys who refused to leave.<ref>{{RK|Pyre}}</ref> The same day, 3,000 men from [[Belfalas]], [[Dol Amroth]] and other places arrived to assist the garrison. But, it was less than a tenth of what was needed. Most that were needed were holding off the [[Corsairs of Umbar|Black Fleet]] of [[Umbar]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''War of the Ring''' was the great conflict at the end of the [[Third Age]], named for [[the One Ring]] and the importance this had in the final outcome. The war was fought between [[Sauron]], the [[Dark Lord]] of [[Mordor]] who attempted to conquer [[Middle-earth]] as he nearly did in the [[Second Age]]; and the [[Free peoples]], being a loose alliance of [[Elves]], [[Dwarves]], [[Hobbits]], [[Ents]] and [[Men]] led by the [[Wise]]. [[Saruman]] participated both on Sauron's side and occasionally as a 'third power' based in [[Orthanc]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''War of the Ring''' was the great conflict at the end of the [[Third Age]], named for [[the One Ring]] and the importance this had in the final outcome. The war was fought between [[Sauron]], the [[Dark Lord]] of [[Mordor]] who attempted to conquer [[Middle-earth]] as he nearly did in the [[Second Age]]; and the [[Free peoples]], being a loose alliance of [[Elves]], [[Dwarves]], [[Hobbits]], [[Ents]] and [[Men]] led by the [[Wise]]. [[Saruman]] participated both on Sauron's side and occasionally as a 'third power' based in [[Orthanc]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron at all times held the military advantage in the War, due to his overwhelming forces; not only [[Orcs]] and [[Trolls]], but [[Haradrim|Men of Harad]] and the [[East]]. His main objective was to overthrow [[Gondor]], his neighbour and the strongest of his enemies. He had such forces at his command, though, that he was able to fight the war on many fronts, simultaneously attacking [[Dale]], [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]] and the [[Elves of Mirkwood|Wood-elves]] in the far north, and [[Lothlórien]] from his secondary stronghold at [[Dol Guldur]].<ref name="<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BA</del>" /> There can be no doubt that, had the Wise not achieved and maintained possession of the Ring, Sauron would ultimately have been victorious.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron at all times held the military advantage in the War, due to his overwhelming forces; not only [[Orcs]] and [[Trolls]], but [[Haradrim|Men of Harad]] and the [[East]]. His main objective was to overthrow [[Gondor]], his neighbour and the strongest of his enemies. He had such forces at his command, though, that he was able to fight the war on many fronts, simultaneously attacking [[Dale]], [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]] and the [[Elves of Mirkwood|Wood-elves]] in the far north, and [[Lothlórien]] from his secondary stronghold at [[Dol Guldur]].<ref name="<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AB</ins>" /> There can be no doubt that, had the Wise not achieved and maintained possession of the Ring, Sauron would ultimately have been victorious.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The policy of the Wise was based around the [[Quest of the Ring]]: a company of nine under the leadership of [[Gandalf]] travelled from [[Rivendell]] with the One Ring, with the hope of taking it to [[Orodruin]] in [[Mordor]] and there destroying it. As a consequence of much of Sauron's native power being within the ring, they realised that in unmaking it, they would also defeat its creator.<ref name="Council" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/</del>></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The policy of the Wise was based around the [[Quest of the Ring]]: a company of nine under the leadership of [[Gandalf]] travelled from [[Rivendell]] with the One Ring, with the hope of taking it to [[Orodruin]] in [[Mordor]] and there destroying it. As a consequence of much of Sauron's native power being within the ring, they realised that in unmaking it, they would also defeat its creator.<ref name="Council"><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{FR|Council}}</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Having renounced the Wise, Saruman had become Sauron's two-faced servant. In an alliance with the [[Dunlendings]], and having [[Orcs]] at his command, he resolved to remove [[Rohan]] as a threat to his Dark Lord, but he also attempted to claim the Ring first when opportunities arose. Until late in the War, he held the advantage, defeating Rohan twice at the [[Battles of the Fords of Isen]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Having renounced the Wise, Saruman had become Sauron's two-faced servant. In an alliance with the [[Dunlendings]], and having [[Orcs]] at his command, he resolved to remove [[Rohan]] as a threat to his Dark Lord, but he also attempted to claim the Ring first when opportunities arose. Until late in the War, he held the advantage, defeating Rohan twice at the [[Battles of the Fords of Isen]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A year before the war, while Gollum was looking for his ring, he was taken to Mordor and interrogated by Sauron, who learned that the One Ring was in the possession of a "[[Baggins]]" in a place called "the Shire".<ref name="Shadows"> However, Sauron was led into thinking that the Shire was on the banks of the Gladden River.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><nowiki></del><ref name=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>hunt<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"></nowiki</del>>{{UT|Hunt}}</ref> Gollum was then set free, but caught by [[Aragorn]], who placed him in the care of the [[Silvan Elves]] and held him in [[Mirkwood]].<ref name="TA" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A year before the war, while Gollum was looking for his ring, he was taken to Mordor and interrogated by Sauron, who learned that the One Ring was in the possession of a "[[Baggins]]" in a place called "the Shire".<ref name="Shadows"> However, Sauron was led into thinking that the Shire was on the banks of the Gladden River.<ref name=hunt>{{UT|Hunt}}</ref> Gollum was then set free, but caught by [[Aragorn]], who placed him in the care of the [[Silvan Elves]] and held him in [[Mirkwood]].<ref name="TA" /></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A messenger from Mordor visited King [[Dáin Ironfoot|Dáin II]] and asked information on Bilbo and the Ring. Meanwhile, Gandalf reading the [[Scroll of Isildur]] in [[Minas Tirith]], also realized that Bilbo's Ring was the One Ring.<ref name="council">{{FR|Council}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A messenger from Mordor visited King [[Dáin Ironfoot|Dáin II]] and asked information on Bilbo and the Ring. Meanwhile, Gandalf reading the [[Scroll of Isildur]] in [[Minas Tirith]], also realized that Bilbo's Ring was the One Ring.<ref name="council">{{FR|Council}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Meanwhile in the North, [[Easterlings]] crossed the [[Carnen]], and King [[Brand]] was driven back to [[Dale]]. He gathered there with the [[Dwarves of Erebor]], and engaged in the [[Battle of Dale]] against the Orcs at the feet of the [[Lonely Mountain]] for three days until ([[17 March]]) he fell alongside King [[Dáin Ironfoot]]. Many Dwarves and Men took refuge in [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]] and were besieged by the Easterlings.<ref name=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"BA}}<</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref"></ref</del>></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Meanwhile in the North, [[Easterlings]] crossed the [[Carnen]], and King [[Brand]] was driven back to [[Dale]]. He gathered there with the [[Dwarves of Erebor]], and engaged in the [[Battle of Dale]] against the Orcs at the feet of the [[Lonely Mountain]] for three days until ([[17 March]]) he fell alongside King [[Dáin Ironfoot]]. Many Dwarves and Men took refuge in [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]] and were besieged by the Easterlings.<ref name=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AB</ins>/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[16 March|next day]] it was understood that the army vanquished in the Battle of the Pelennor was only a fraction of Sauron's forces, and eventually Minas Tirith would not manage to withstand forever. [[Imrahil]] expressed concern for the defence of Gondor. Aragorn assured him that [[Angbor]] was marching with 4,000 men through [[Lossarnach]] to garrison Minas Tirith.<ref name="Debate" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[16 March|next day]] it was understood that the army vanquished in the Battle of the Pelennor was only a fraction of Sauron's forces, and eventually Minas Tirith would not manage to withstand forever. [[Imrahil]] expressed concern for the defence of Gondor. Aragorn assured him that [[Angbor]] was marching with 4,000 men through [[Lossarnach]] to garrison Minas Tirith.<ref name="Debate" /></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Host of the West]] marched from Minas Tirith on [[18 March]] to confront Sauron.<ref name="gate">{{RK|Gate}}</ref> During that course, Lothlórien was attacked for a third and last time by Orcs ([[22 March]]). After much destruction, the Elves repulsed them once again.<ref name="<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BA</del>" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Host of the West]] marched from Minas Tirith on [[18 March]] to confront Sauron.<ref name="gate">{{RK|Gate}}</ref> During that course, Lothlórien was attacked for a third and last time by Orcs ([[22 March]]). After much destruction, the Elves repulsed them once again.<ref name="<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AB</ins>" /></div></td></tr>
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</table>Amandacilhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=War_of_the_Ring&diff=374632&oldid=prevHyarion: Multiple notices at the top of the article is a bit annoying, I think in terms of expansion this seems okay, but I'm leaving our sources template2023-06-04T01:49:32Z<p>Multiple notices at the top of the article is a bit annoying, I think in terms of expansion this seems okay, but I'm leaving our sources template</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron's plans were halted when he received word of the prophecy in Gondor and the doings of his turncoat [[Saruman]], and concluded that the [[Wise]] did not yet have possession of the Ring yet, as he feared. [[Nazgûl|Black Riders]] arrived at [[Isengard]] around [[18 September|September 18]], but Gandalf had escaped. Concealed behind the walls of Isengard, Saruman denied any knowledge and convinced the Witch-king that Gandalf alone knew where the Shire and the Ring was, and so the Nine passed into [[Rohan]] in search of him. A terrified [[Gríma|Wormtongue]] answered that Gandalf had passed through Rohan, where the Shire was, and even that Saruman had lied to them. The riders were divided into four pairs, and the Witch-King went with the swiftest to [[Minhiriath]]. Along the way, they captured several spies of Saruman and found charts and maps of the Shire. They sent along the spy to [[Bree]], warning them that they now belonged to Mordor, not Isengard.<ref name="hunt"/></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron's plans were halted when he received word of the prophecy in Gondor and the doings of his turncoat [[Saruman]], and concluded that the [[Wise]] did not yet have possession of the Ring yet, as he feared. [[Nazgûl|Black Riders]] arrived at [[Isengard]] around [[18 September|September 18]], but Gandalf had escaped. Concealed behind the walls of Isengard, Saruman denied any knowledge and convinced the Witch-king that Gandalf alone knew where the Shire and the Ring was, and so the Nine passed into [[Rohan]] in search of him. A terrified [[Gríma|Wormtongue]] answered that Gandalf had passed through Rohan, where the Shire was, and even that Saruman had lied to them. The riders were divided into four pairs, and the Witch-King went with the swiftest to [[Minhiriath]]. Along the way, they captured several spies of Saruman and found charts and maps of the Shire. They sent along the spy to [[Bree]], warning them that they now belonged to Mordor, not Isengard.<ref name="hunt"/></div></td></tr>
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