Dallok

Dallok was a popular gondorian team game. Each player was outfitted with a glove of cotton and leather over the left hand and a short bat in the right. With five players per team, the object was to knock a wooden ball through a gate. One team defended the gate and the other team attempted to knock the ball through the gate, which scored the team a point. The gate was four feet high and three feet wide. To become the attackers, the defenders had to seize the ball from their opponents three times without letting them score a point. To take the ball away, three defenders (at a distance of least three feet from each other) had to consecutively touch the ball with mitt or bat. The best strategies for defense and attack were much debated between games. There were occasional discussions about covering the wooden ball with a cotton and leather covering to reduce the number of bruises, but broken bones were relatively rare.