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Collections: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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(Note: Thanks to the effort of a kind reader, this post is now available in audio format! The playlist for the entire series may be found here.) This is the first part of a six-part (II, III, IV, V…

Bret Devereaux Collections , Siege of Gondor May 10, 2019 January 26, 2026 16 Minutes (Note: Thanks to the effort of a kind reader, this post is now available in audio format ! The playlist for the entire series may be found here .) This is the first part of a six-part ( II , III , IV , V , VI ) series I expect to roll out taking a historian’s look at the Siege of Gondor in Peter Jackson’s Return of the King . We’re going to discuss how historically plausible the sequence of events is and, in the process, talk a fair bit about how pre-gunpowder siege warfare works. As with other Collections po

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