"And Bor did not?" The poor man. Even if he did survive, his people would likely be taken as guilty by association by non-Easterling survivors.
"It was a risk, but it was a risk we both felt we had to take. You know that. That we were undone by treachery does not make the underlying logic of the campaign unsound. Nor does it excuse what was going wrong already before you took the field."
Because the plan was already undergoing contact with the enemy. It wasn't unsalvageable, he thinks still, but once the Nargothrond contingent was loose things needed to be improvised.
A sigh. "And Ulfang was Caranthir's man, if I remember aright; if you are taking responsibility for the errors of your vassals, why are you excusing me from doing the same for mine?"
He pauses to hear those last words, looks a long time at his cousin's face. "You think yourself a danger at present? So far from Arda?"
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"It was a risk, but it was a risk we both felt we had to take. You know that. That we were undone by treachery does not make the underlying logic of the campaign unsound. Nor does it excuse what was going wrong already before you took the field."
Because the plan was already undergoing contact with the enemy. It wasn't unsalvageable, he thinks still, but once the Nargothrond contingent was loose things needed to be improvised.
A sigh. "And Ulfang was Caranthir's man, if I remember aright; if you are taking responsibility for the errors of your vassals, why are you excusing me from doing the same for mine?"
He pauses to hear those last words, looks a long time at his cousin's face. "You think yourself a danger at present? So far from Arda?"