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Well I'm probably a bit late in this thread, but I ran past it on the far edges of the www, and decided to give my opinion.
The way i see it the Gondorian soldiers have a long past of successes such as the 1st great war before the trilogy started, they expanded ther teritories for miles and miles and managed to keep their borders save from orcs and other enemies for centuries without any help of the Rohirrim hordes.
Same counts for the Rohirrim Soldiers who kept their territories for centuries from the wildman (Read the Simarillion), orcs and other enemies.
The Gondorian's were beaten down against a huge overwelming power of orc's in Osgiliat, but as u can see in the battle, quite some orcs were slain though they overan the Gondorian's in the 2nd battle.
During the 2 towers though the Gondorianīs managed to keep the city of Osgiliat save with only 1500 man against another overwelming power of Orcīs and the ringwraiths.
Donīt forget that the movie is not exact to the books, the books speak of more heroes than seen in the movie.
The only thing which made me wonder regarding the Rohirrim is Helmīs Deep...
Only the king and 4 bodyguards were remaining together with Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli... All Elfs and footsoldiers were slain... quite a massacre... I did not see that many people fall in Osgiliat, and Osgiliat did not have 3 rings of defence such as Helmīs Deep...
In the end though when the Rohirrim and Gondorian Soldiers make a stand in front of the black gate of Mordor, they both fight equally impressive, without too many casualities... they level eachother out I guess on that level...
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