In Dale, both King Brand and King Dáin II Ironfoot were killed, and were succeeded by their sons Bard and Thorin III Stonehelm.
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King Brand of Dale fell before the gate of Erebor, and King under the Mountain Dáin II Ironfoot fell as he was defending Brand's body.
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Unexpectedly, however, Gandalf arrived in the nick of time with Erkenbrand and the scattered Rohirrim, along with a forest of Huorns who had been sent to the battle by the Ent leader Treebeard.
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To this end, the war effort of Mordor was focused in the south in and around Gondor, in a strategy of divide and conquer.
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During the War of the Ring Isengard was Saruman's base of operations against the Rohirrim, and he defiled the valley, cutting down its trees (and, in Peter Jackson's film version, damming the Isen).
During the War of the Ring, Peregrin Took, a companion of Aragorn's in The Fellowship of the Ring, became a member of the elite Citadel Guard at Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor.