Posted: February 21, 2000 at 17:11:14: by Russ
: I would imagine that Minas Tirith would have a garrison and standing army of 20,000 and it seems reasonable to me that they would have scouting groups and patroling regiments in the area and the men from Dol-Amroth. Calling patrols back and counting Amroth's men it would probably give them close to 25,000...and then add in rohans riders lets say 31,000. I dont know if this number seems large but it is larger than Michaels estimate. My reasoning for making it larger is because they still had enough troops to march to the gate of mordor. I would imagine that the horde of orcs outnumbered the horde of haradrim giving Sauron maybe 100,000 or more.
: Whatchya think?By the time they marched to Morannon, many reinforcements had arrived from the southern fiefs. In fact, when they laft someone (I forgot who) said that they were leaving Minas Tirith stronger than when the Withch King attacked. IIRC, around 6-7000 left with the Aragorn et al to fight Sauron - and some were left at the Morgul Vale and other sent up to take Cair Andros to prevent Sauron's forces in Anorien from attacking form their rear. I would assume at least as least as many as attacked Sauron remained behind, both to garrison Minas Tirith and to mop up Sauron's armies in Anorien.
Russ
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