Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27200931-20170214212507/@comment-29212138-20170219024233

Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: MrHobit1234 wrote: Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: Others said throughout the story that there are too few elves to take on Mordor. Ten thousand elves would be sufficient for that, I would think, so it therefore must be less. It's unknown, aside from Rivendell, how populated Lindon was at this point, but based on what Elrond has said one would presume not many. Lorien was able to fend off attacks, it was stated, because of the power of Nenya; but I was speaking of High Elves only anyway.

All we know of the numbers of Mordor was that they were exponentially greater than "tens of thousands" (I did botch that number the first time, I found my mistake looking up the next few numbers), and that they were enough to make Denethor, lord of tens of thousands of soldiers spread throughout Gondor (there were appx. 21,000 Gondorian soldiers at the Pelennor alone) believe that Mordor was so much more powerful that any attempt to fight them was hopeless. I would say that would, at the least, mean hundreds of thousands.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 00:47, February 19, 2017 (UTC) I would say more like 10,000 Gondorians, I mean they only brought 7,000 to the Morannon, and that was including some from Rohan!

Nope, it is absolutely confirmed to be 21,000: 9,000 came to the city before the siege and 12,000 came with Aragorn, plus 6,000 Rohirrim. Aragorn also stated that he left the bulk of the force behind to guard Minas Tirith, clear Cair Andros, and dispatch the Easterlings in Anórien.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 01:37, February 19, 2017 (UTC) Not to mention the thousands more defending their provinces and fiefdoms as stated in the books.