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The Dead Men were laid under Isildur's curse II 3441; their Shadow Host set out on 8 March III 3019, and the Dead were released from their curse on 13 March of the same year
Location
The Host set out from the Paths of the Dead to march across southern Gondor and eventually reach Pelargir
Origins
Men of the Mountains cursed by Isildur, and recruited to aid in the War of the Ring by Aragorn
Race
Men
Culture
Men of the Mountains
Important peaks
The Dead had long haunted the Paths of the Dead beneath the Dwimorberg
Other names
Grey Host; the Host was made up from the cursed Men of the Paths of the Dead, who were variously known as Dead Men, The Dead, Oathbreakers, Shadow-men, Sleepless Dead

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Shadow Host

The army of the King of the Dead

A name for the dread army that Aragorn summoned out from the Paths of the Dead to the Stone of Erech. There he granted them the chance to fulfil their failed oath to his ancestor Isildur, and they agreed to follow him into battle. Though the Shadow Host fought in alliance with the Free Peoples, they lost none of their horror, and as they passed through the fiefs of southern Gondor, most of those people that remained fled in terror. At the port of Pelargir, they helped to capture a Corsair fleet that was preparing an attack on Minas Tirith. In return, Aragorn released them, and they truly faded into the shadows at last.


See also...

Aragorn Elessar, Legolas Greenleaf, Morthond Vale, White Mountains

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