User blog:Auraestus/The Battle in the Silver Peaks

(Based on a Total war battle)

Mordor, the foul breeding place of many orcs, had struck again in the third age, and may have delve a critical blow to the war of the ring had Glosur and his forces delt with a large force of Orcs that had emptied from Morannon and marched through Rohan and attempted to pass unseen through Ered Nimrais to strike Minas Tirith from the back, given direct orders not to disturb the Dwarves of the mountains, as as till then Glosur gave no care to the war effort. However the orcs strayed, they saw Glosur marching a warparty of about 2,550 dwarven soldiers to reinforce a frontier province. They launched an ambush. Glosur, using quick thinking, put the dwarves in a quick line-holding formation as the hordes of orcs with spears and axes charged ruthlessly. The first wave sent the elite orcs crashing into the phalanx of the dwarves, with the large orc army heading soon after. The right section had many archers and even dark numenorians assaulting them. to the left had many orcs and trolls. The orcs quickly lost the upper hand, as a rain of bolts flew over the pikemen and the pikemen charged. the left hand side had the trolls completely get wiped out by the stakes and the hammers of the dwarves slammed into the orcs.Even on the right side with the numenorians the dwarves slowly got the upper hand. To make it worse, Glosur himself soon charged in and slammed into the orcs. The orcs were getting decimated, not even 30 minutes into the battle and they have lost half their forces with the dwarves only losing 3%, the orcs were soon in a rout. With the hammers, pikemen, and glosur all slamming into the right side, which had been refusing to rout. soon the general, Grishnagk, was killed. His numenorian bodyguards tried to rout but they were cut down by the dwarven spears and axes. By the end of the battle the orcs were in a total rout, with 80% of their forces destroyed, the dwarves had the clear victory, and unknowingly saved minas tirith. At the end the dwarves only lost 6% of their total forces. Even sauron grew wary when he learned of the decimation of his forces, he just earned a new enemy...