Gondor is a vast land, beyond the kingdoms of Minas Tirith and Osgilliath that audiences see in Peter Jackson’s film adaptations. There are many colonies across the wide spaces of Gondor, and many towns, villages and peoples. Warriors are called from every nation of Gondor's lands to come and defend the White City from the trolls and orcs who besiege it, but it takes many men, both friends and strangers alike to stave off the attack.
One group of people who are essential in saving the gleaming towers of Minas Tirith from utter ruin are the Woses, wild folk who live in the untrodden paths Gondor, long forgotten by even the most esteemed members of society. When the Red Arrow of Gondor is sent out to call for aid, it is received by the Riders of Rohan who camp nearby. Theoden and Eomer meet with the messenger of Denethor the Steward, who begs them to come as soon as they are able.
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But the orcs of Mordor have built trenches all around the city, and the Fell Beasts wheel in the sky above, making it impossible for the riders to ride across to Minas Tirith’s aid. They fear that by the time they have found a way around the battlements of the enemy, the city will have fallen, the people will be slaughtered or worse, and there will be nothing to defend but rubble. Then, their salvation appears out of the surrounding trees, in the middle of the night, in the form of Ghan-buri-Ghan.
Merry, who is traveling with the riders of Rohan in the service of king Theoden, describes him as ‘a strange squat shape of a man, gnarled as an old stone, and the hairs of his scanty beard straggled on his lumpy chin like dry moss.’ In such a way, it appears
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