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Mind you quoting where Tolkien said that? That to me sounds like a complete fabrication. That's even ignoring the fact that the Black Numenoreans in the southern havens were destroyed/assilimated by the natives, and the fact that crossbows do not exist in Middle-earth.

Hobit, Chief of the Inquisition (Inform me of heretics)