Can I just go back to Dol Guldor for a second. Sorry.
When the battle,if there even was one, is won sorting out the fortifications is quite simple. They just use slighting, see Castle by Marc Morris. Cromwell, cough Satan cough, used this after the English Civil War. Here we have two Istari obviously skilled with explosives, all they have to do is dig a trench under a main wall put in a charge and hey presto half the castle comes crashing down. This is still used to demolish buildings today.
As for guerilla warfare in Ithillian, this was brilliant. I think it was an American officer who said that guerilla warfare can only be defeated by betrayal, as the Irish have proven again and again and again. As I don't see any Gondorians running off to help Sauron, he's pretty well stuck in how to defeat them without a massive frontal attack on Osgiliath, which did come.
[ July 11, 2003: Message edited by: Dimaldaeon ]
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