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The defensive soldiers begin taking their posts on Cair Andros. Any soldier or ranger that can be spared is summoned to the city. In the throne room of Ithilrond, Eradan and all available nobles, officers, and advisers gather before 20 brave and loyal men willing to give up their lives for their nation and their cause.

"Never in my life have I seen men so courageous as you. The sacrifice you are about to make is monumental, and your good deed will be remembered for millennia. You know now that there is no turning back, yet you were all willing to take this task upon yourselves when you knew the price was your lives when you could find honor just as easily in battle. Yet you were loyal, and you loved your country and your cause enough to give your life for it. I promise you all, you brave young men, that your deaths will not be in vain. Hence it would only be right for some of the bravest men in the history of Ithilien to die as knights, and your names carven in stone commemorating this deed."

He draws his sword to knight them. The Captain of Cair Andros has a paper with their names, for when the monument is to be made.

"Henceforth I name you Ithil Knights, brave, strong, and loyal. Go forth on your quest, to secure the success of the revolution and bring glory to your country."

They say their goodbyes, and at dusk they board one of the few boats they have to set sail downstream for Osgiliath, on a suicide mission to take out the bridge. They would arrive at Osgiliath by nightfall.