Who were the men refusing the call of Gondor?

[Animalmother]

Boromir may be speaking not just about whole regions and peoples once allied to Gondor, but also broadly about small parties of gentlemen adventurers who once came to Gondor's aid, who do so no longer. In the Catholic Medieval Europe Tolkien so loved, small parties of well-armed gentlemen-adventurers would travel great distances to help in the wars against the Moors and Saracens on the frontiers of Christendom. Aragorn himself was such a warrior adventurer in his younger days. Boromir may simply be complaining that none of this kind come any longer to Gondor as of III 3018, save from Rohan.

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

what about the men and troops from lamedon, anfalas, morthond vale, pinnath gelin, lossarnach, dol amroth, ringlo vale and pelargir and lebennin they all could come to aid minas tirith??

and for the who were the dead cursed guys well i think they were they men of dwimorberg in lamedon

"this stone brought by isildur out of the ruin of Numenor, has become the trysting place of shadowmen of the dwimorberg, whom he cursed as oathbreakers in ages past. this forgotten people and their king are doomed to await the day when a heir of isildur releases them from the curse. untill then, the lands about Erech are the home of those who are dead, and the living go there not."


Erech is north lamedon, south of helms deep.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by FeRaL sHaDoW

what about the men and troops from lamedon, anfalas, morthond vale, pinnath gelin, lossarnach, dol amroth, ringlo vale and pelargir and lebennin they all could come to aid minas tirith??

If Boromir was speaking of coming to Minas Tirith's aid, then you're surely right. But I think he was speaking of coming to Gondor's aid, and to that your comment doesn't obviously apply to: those are regions and cities within Gondor itself.