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Dolgukhor wrote Legoarmy505 wrote: Just saying, irl, when people sieged a city, once they got inside, they weren't treated like men anymore and they literally would burn, slaughter and rape anything moving I agree with Lego. No army would think "Its just a child" they would thinnk about how he would grow up to be like his father aka kill himXD I definently see your point guys, seiging armies were usually quite brutal. However, in the case of more civilized armies, the brutality only usually occured after either desperate resistence from the defenders, the defenders graphically mistreating people that the attacking soldiers felt allied to, or the officers of the attacking army releasing their men from discipline. In the case of countries such as Gondor, the Elves, and the Rohirrim it would be highly unlikely for them to resort to the brutal treatment of captives seen in history. And even in the cases where attacking armies massacred the inhabitants, after just one night they usually stopped their slaying, looting, and raping, resorting back to their well disciplined structure. In these cases the inhabitants were usually sold as slaves or left nearly alone as long as they continued to comply to the conquerer's wills.