Battle of Dagorlad

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Date:	SA 3434
Location:	Plains of Dagorlad
Result:	Victory for the Last Alliance
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Combatants

Last Alliance of Elves and Men

Mordor
Rhun Khand Harad

Commanders

Gil-galad
Elendil
Isildur
Elrond
Anárion

Sauron
Mouth of Sauron
Khamûl

Strength

Probably over 200,000 Elves and Men; 50,000 Dwarves

Approximately 300,000 orcs; 1,000 Trolls; 20,000 Wargs; 900 evil men,a small number of Dwarves (Haradrim, Easterling, Black Numenoreans and Variags); thousands of other evil creatures.

Casualties

Moderate: ,10,000 human Soldiers 10,000 Elves 10,000 Dwarves

Heavy: 200,000 Mordorians

900 Evil Men

War of Sauron and the Elves
Battle of Dagorlad – Siege of Barad-dûr

The Battle of Dagorlad occurred in the year SA 3434. It was fought between the army of the Last Alliance under Gil-galad and Elendil and an army of Orcs and other creatures loyal to Sauron. The battle took place on the great, treeless, open plain of Dagorlad between Emyn Muil and Cirith Gorgor. The army of the Last Alliance won the battle and was able to attack the Morannon, the entrance to Sauron's land of Mordor. Later, in the Third Age, the Dagorlad was the site of many battles between Gondor and various Easterling armies.

By some unknown means, many of the bodies of those slain in the battle on both sides came to occupy the marshes at the foot of Emyn Muil, and were preserved nearly intact for several millennia. The area had long been known as the Dead Marshes by the time Frodo crossed it at the end of the Third Age.

The word dagorlad means 'battle plain' in the Sindarin language.

Note: In Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Dagorlad is misspelled as Dagorland on various maps shown in the films and in the appendices of the special extended DVD editions.

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