Thread:Patrick.vtap/@comment-27097330-20160904202547/@comment-26347028-20160905160453

Dark dwarves 2 wrote: Honestly it's rather illogical to think gondor has no standing navy... Just because it wasn't mentioned in the books doesn't mean it didn't exist.

Umbar had to be a threat of some sort if they would send aragorn to destroy it. Don't pull the rank card many armies would send lower ranking individuals to do such missions before. And the fact that it isn't in the books means it's up to discussion.

Now, were the elven harbours not considered to house some sort of standing navy by you lot?

And I'm saying that he wasn't the special butterfly you make out. Granted, he's not low, but he's not especially high either. This was basically a standard mission, rather than the full blown invasion you make out.