very numerous was that battalion , nor had any amongst them a faint heart , and they won the greatest glory of all those fair houses in that struggle against doom ; yet were they ill-fated , and none ever fared away from that field , but fell about rog and vanished from the earth ; and with them much craftsmanship and skill has been lost for ever.~ this was the fashion and the array of the eleven houses of the gondothlim with their signs and emblems , and the bodyguard of tuor , the folk of the wing , was accounted the twelfth .