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Battle of the Camp

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Battle of the Camp
Conflict: Battle of the Camp
Date: Third Age 1944
Place: Dagorlad
Outcome: Decisive Gondorian victory


Easterlings and Haradrim


Unknown Easterling commanders


Army of Gondor

Wainriders and a contingent of Haradrim


many, including Ondoher, and his sons Artamir and Faramir



Events Prior to the Battle




The Battle

The feasting Wainriders suddenly found their success reversed, as Eärnil appeared with his Southern Army, reinforced by fleeing members of Ondoher's defeated northern troops. Eärnil's army descended on the unprepared Wainriders, driving many of them into the swamplands of the Dead Marshes. The Easterlings, for so long a dreaded enemy of Gondor, did not march against Gondor for hundreds of years afterwards. The battle was named after where it had taken place: the Battle of the Camp.


Because there was no heir apparent to the throne, Ondoher and his sons having been killed in the battle, Eärnil was crowned by Pelendur, the current Steward of Gondor(even though Arvedui of Arthedain had already claimed it. He was a distant relative of Ondoher, and could trace his lineage back to Elendil and Anárion of old.