I confess to some disagreement there. 'Beleagured' can be applied to a stressed or fractious mental state, which is intangible. I do not believe there must be any materiél barrier or partition. Although I will concede that Tolkien may well not have used the word in such a context and thusly may not have applied 'leaguer' to the protection of Doriath.
[ July 24, 2002: Message edited by: Stephanos ]
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