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WOODMEN OF MIRKWOOD
Graham will provide these bases for this army
The Army can have a max. of 1500 men (@50:1 scale that is 30 figures).
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A group of Men known as the Woodmen (or Woodmen of Mirkwood) were present in the lands of Middle-earth described in J.R.R. Tolkien's books, particularly in the regions of and around Mirkwood and the Anduin river valley.
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The Woodmen were a people of Northmen, distantly related to the Edain (the ancestors of the Númenóreans and the Dúnedain, including Aragorn) and closely related to the Beornings and the Rohirrim. They lived in scattered homesteads and villages in the Vales of Anduin and on the western and central edges of Mirkwood (formerly Greenwood the Great). They did not form a single, unified kingdom like Gondor or Rohan.
They were skilled hunters and woodsmen, renowned for their archery. They were self-reliant and wary, having lived for a long time under the shadow of Sauron's fortress of Dol Guldur in southern Mirkwood. They generally maintained friendly relations with the Elves of Mirkwood and the Dwarves of the nearby hills and Lonely Mountain, and were enemies of Orcs and Wargs.
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​They fought against Sauron's forces in the North, repelling attacks from Dol Guldur in what is known as the Battle under the Trees. After Sauron's defeat, the darkness was lifted from Mirkwood (renamed Eryn Lasgalen, the Wood of Greenleaves), and the central portion of the forest was officially given to the Woodmen and the Beornings to dwell in by Thranduil and Celeborn.
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