Battle of the Camp

This map shows the invading Haradrim and Wainriders with black arrows. The Northern Army led by King Ondoher is shown using white arrows, while the yellow arrows depict the route of Eärnil's Southern Army.

(1)	The Southern Army meets the Haradrim northward of the Crossings of Poros, and defeats them. Eärnil turns his force to the north to reinforce Ondoher's Northern Army.
(2)	North of the Morannon, Ondoher's Northern Army has less success against the Wainriders. The King and his elder son Artamir are both slain, and his soldiers are put to flight.
(3)	Some of the Northern Army and their allies the Éothéod are driven toward the Dead Marshes, and the King's younger son Faramir is slain.
(4)	The Wainriders break off their pursuit and make camp, while the survivors of the Northern Army rally to Eärnil, who approaches, undetected by the enemy, from the south.
(5)	The Battle of the Camp: Eärnil descends on the Wainriders, who are celebrating their imagined victory. The Wainriders are routed, and many are driven off eastward, or into the Dead Marshes.

At the end of the second millennium of the Third Age, the realm of Gondor came close to its destruction. The Wainrider people from the east made an alliance with the Haradrim, and a dual attack on Ithilien was launched. While the Wainriders assaulted Ithilien from the north, the armies of the Haradrim crossed the Poros and invaded South Ithilien.

The northern assault of the Wainriders was met by the King of Gondor himself, Ondoher, with his two sons Artamir and Faramir. The Easterlings swept through Gondor's defence, cutting down the King and his heirs and routing his army. Their victory complete, and Gondor defenceless before them, the Wainriders paused in North Ithilien to celebrate their conquest.

Unknown to the victorious Wainriders, their allies in the south had met with much less success. Beyond hope, the Gondorian Captain Eärnil had led Gondor's Southern Army to victory over the Haradrim, destroying their army in South Ithilien, to the north of the Poros. Then Eärnil turned north.

The feasting Wainriders suddenly found their success reversed, as Eärnil appeared with his Southern Army, reinforced by fleeing members of Ondoher's defeated northern troops. Eärnil's army descended on the unprepared Wainriders, driving many of them into the swamplands of the Dead Marshes. That eastern people, for so long a dreaded enemy of Gondor, never challenged her again, and the battle where Eärnil won his success was named after the Wainrider camp where it had taken place: the Battle of the Camp.