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[LOTR] Do the elves have a military rank structure?

I know they have clear leaders or generals but each soldier is so heavily outfitted that I wonder if they are more like a host o knights with a one or 2 leaders.
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Probably not a formal ranking system.  That type of protocol is necessary when you have large-scale conscription and there's regular turnover of the soldiers.  With ranks, people are interchangeable.  You don't need to spend a lot of time learning who is the best leader, you just plug-n-play the new sergeant and let him go.

Elves are extremely long lived and probably don't travel around much.  They don't need an anonymous, depersonalized ranking system because they've know all of their companions for decades or centuries.  Each elf knows his or her place and how everyone contributes.