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Originally Posted by xerxes
No, I meant the way you formed your phrase
" Aragorn means to bring the Corsairs and other reinforcements from Southern Gondor to defend the City"
Because, Aragorn did not bring the Corsairs of Umbar to defend the City, but rather, he drove them off using the Isildure ghost army, in order to free the tied up Gondor fief armies. 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
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Ahh I see. I tend to associate the Corsairs with the actual ships in my head and not the pirates because when I first read it as a kid I didn't know what a Corsair was, and all Tolkien told me about was the ships themselves. but clearly you are correct - he didn't bring the Corsairs themselves, just their ships.
-dale