That's an excellent observation. I suppose the women only would fight if they were closely and directly threatened. For the battle, there was enough time to organize the men and boys to get out there and do their thing. The women would probably have put up some fight if the Orcs got far into the caves, though. I'm guessing that the women were mostly taught in self-defense techniques, while the men were expected to be the soldiers and so on.
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Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow.
How did it come to this?
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