King of Rohan - Theodin, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Theodin's army
The army also includes Eomer, Theodin's nephew, who was banished from Rohan by Grima Wormtongue.
It also included the the Elf Army led by Haldir.
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In the Battle of Five Armies the orcs and wargs of Bolg were defeated by the combined forces of Bard and the men of the Esgaroth, Thranduil and the elves of Mirkwood, the Dwarves under Thorin and Dain, and the Great eagles.
The gleam refers to the last rays of sun and the gloom of the losing battle as the eagles swoop down to finish the war once and for all. page 268 the hobbit
The sides were fairly equal with no one winning or losing and so when the eagles arrived, they made that side that much stronger than the other, and they won the battle.
The HobbitThe Fellowship of the Ring, Book IThe Fellowship of the Ring, Book IIThe Two Towers, Book IThe Two Towers, Book IIThe Return of the King, Book IThe Return of the King, Book IIThe Silmarillion is another book that Tolkien also set in Middle-earth thousands of years before the first of the Hobbit books, but it is a history of the Elves and does not concern itself with Hobbits (except briefly in its final chapter where it reviews the events of the end of the Third Age from the point of view of the Elves, which differs slightly from the point of view of the Hobbits).
The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers and The Return of the King .
Chapter 17, The Clouds Burst.