If you want to use a more realistic set of rules to cover aerial forces (and such aerial forces should not be allowed in competition-style battles), then click here for my suggestions. In the lists, aerial foces are listed as Irr LH (S) so that they can be used against 'normal' opponents without special rules. Having said that, aerial forces were not in fact a common component of Mddle-Earth armies. The only real requirement that the DBM historical rules are lacking as far as Middle-Earth goes is rules for dealing with aerial forces. The lists are designed to work with the DBM rules as they stand, without modification. Likewise, the 12 volumes of the History of Middle-Earth are not used as evidence for these lists - they add little to the published works in terms of army list details, since they are mostly concerend wth the development of the narrative, developments which were, after all, discarded. Conversely, when a fuller, but earlier version of a work exists, I have ignored it in favour of an extent, but briefer and later published work, in any details that in any way conflict with the later version, since such later works are both more developed, consistent and realistic.įor instance, the military organisation of Gondolin, as outlined in Unfinished Tales, is much later, more developed and realistic, though less detailed and finished, than that presented in 'The Fall of Gondolin' written in Tolkien's youth, which would see Noldor armed with clubs and slings among other things, clearly in opposition to later ideas about the Noldor being technically advanced. Following his son when editing the Silmarillion, I have taken into account only the (latest) published versions, rather than trying to guess future items.
The Second Age is herein abbreviated 2A, and the Third Age 3A.Īs Tolkien wrote his works over a considerable number of years, there are often large conceptual differences between the ideas he presented as first conceived, as published, and as he intended them to be in the future. These lists are arranged in chronological order, but because of the peculiar dating difficulties associated with the First Age in particular, exact starting and terminating dates for each list have not been given.
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