Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26486187-20160925013413/@comment-26556622-20180225151409

Well if this is alive again, I'd say (previous to saurons final defeat that is)

1. Númenor (at its peak and if it's counted amongst middle-earth)

2. Angband

3. Gondor (at its peak)

4. Mordor (Second age after laying waste to eregion, basically owning all of middle-earth save rivendell, lóthlórien, lindon and the woodland realm)

5. Doriath (questionable or not, whilst everyone keeps shouting Gondolin, Doriath was much more stable and much much bigger, the only reason it was destroyed was due to the power vacuum that arose after Thingols death and Melians departure, without them, who had united them for thousands of years, Doriath couldn't throw together a single organized defense force to fend off the dwarves, leaving the capital destroyed and much of the population moving south to escape the wrath of Morgoth now the protection of Melian was gone.)