Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26088681-20171011203808/@comment-25012056-20171017012231

The Free Easterlings weren't strong enough to significantly delay the designs that Sauron had been setting in motion for millennia, and the Southron rebels had a negligible effect if any. Sauron had been planning for two thousand years: over the years he had already sent emissiaries to sitr them to wars on Gondor, and you're forgetting something much more important. Sauron (or his Nazgûl) had the Nine Rings, which probably would allow him to dominate the groups that they had controlled in the past, Haradrim and Easterlings alike. He doesn't need much to prove it - he just needs to summon some chieftains and priests to Mount Doom and cause an eruption as a show of divine power, and they'd sure as hell believe that Sauron has indeed returned. And he has other ways as well - remember that the Eastern Morwaith, which had previously resisted his control, were fooled by his Half-Troll ruse and joined him without a second thought to end the menace.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 01:22, October 17, 2017 (UTC)