Shot and dart fell thick siege-towers crashed or blazed suddenly like torches. The Return of the King, LoTR Book 5, Ch 4, The Siege of Gondor But about the Gate resistance still was stout, and there the knights of Dol Amroth and the hardiest of the garrison stood at bay. Men that saw them whispered saying: 'Belike the old tales speak well there is Elvish blood in the veins of that folk, for the people of Nimrodel dwelt in that land once long ago.' And then one would sing amid the gloom some staves of the Lay of Nimrodel, or other songs of the Vale of Anduin out of vanished years. For he and his knights still held themselves like lords in whom the race of Númenor ran true. and with him went the Prince of Dol Amroth in his shining mail. Tirelessly he strode from Citadel to Gate. The Return of the King, LoTR Book 5, Ch 4, The Siege of Gondor So it was that Gandalf took command of the last defence of the City of Gondor. Only the charge of Dol Amroth had saved him from the red southland swords that would have hewed him as he lay. And in his arms before him on his horse he bore the body of his kinsman, Faramir son of Denethor, found upon the stricken field. The Return of the King, LoTR Book 5, Ch 4, The Siege of Gondor The mounted knights returned, and at their rear the banner of Dol Amroth, and the Prince. And from the walls an answering shout went up for foremost on the field rode the swan-knights of Dol Amroth with their Prince and his blue banner at their head. The Return of the King, LoTR Book 5, Ch 1, Minas Tirith Now they sprang forward, formed, quickened to a gallop, and charged with a great shout. And last and proudest, Imrahil, Prince of Dol Amroth., with gilded banners bearing his token of the Ship and the Silver Swan, and a company of knights in full harness riding grey horses and behind them seven hundreds of men at arms, tall as lords, grey-eyed, dark-haired, singing as they came.
Description: The elite cavalry of Dol Amroth, led by its Prince.
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