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Old 04-04-2007, 22:46 PM   #166 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by xerxes View Post
That was I meant.

In regards to "Corsairs of Umbar", I always felt they were meant to represent the Turkish Corsairs fleet under Barbaroussa during Suleiman era
Yeah, quite possibly, IIRC the Corsairs were 'fallen men of Númenor' who had mixed with the Haradrim, Aragorn sacked the city as a youth and destroyed their great ships, leading a detachment of the men of Gondor.
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