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the battle of the pelennor fields 1107
that was upon his arm before her cold lips, and behold! a
little mist was laid on it hardly to be seen.
‘Haste now is needed,’ he said, and he sent one riding back
swiftly to the City to bring aid. But he bowing low to the
fallen, bade them farewell, and mounting rode away into
battle.
And now the fighting waxed furious on the fields of the
Pelennor; and the din of arms rose upon high, with the crying
of men and the neighing of horses. Horns were blown and
trumpets were braying, and the mûmakil were bellowing as
they were goaded to war. Under the south walls of the City
the footmen of Gondor now drove against the legions of
Morgul that were still gathered there in strength. But the
horsemen rode eastward to the succour of Éomer: Húrin the
Tall, Warden of the Keys, and the Lord of Lossarnach, and
Hirluin of the Green Hills, and Prince Imrahil the fair with
his knights all about him.
Not too soon came their aid to the Rohirrim; for fortune
had turned against Éomer, and his fury had betrayed him.
The great wrath of his onset had utterly overthrown the front
of his enemies, and great wedges of his Riders had passed
clear through the ranks of the Southrons, discomfiting their
horsemen and riding their footmen to ruin. But wherever the
mûmakil came there the horses would not go, but blenched
and swerved away; and the great monsters were unfought,
and stood like towers of defence, and the Haradrim rallied
about them. And if the Rohirrim at their onset were thrice
outnumbered by the Haradrim alone, soon their case became
worse; for new strength came now streaming to the field out
of Osgiliath. There they had been mustered for the sack of
the City and the rape of Gondor, waiting on the call of their
Captain. He now was destroyed; but Gothmog the lieutenant
of Morgul had flung them into the fray; Easterlings with axes,
and Variags of Khand, Southrons in scarlet, and out of Far
Harad black men like half-trolls with white eyes and red
tongues. Some now hastened up behind the Rohirrim, others