Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-14.100.136.186-20170514111503/@comment-26149161-20170520002957

Usually, Tolkien's final word is taken as the canon. He said, in the end,

"Their task was to circumvent Sauron: to bring help to the few tribes of Men that had rebelled from Melkor-worship, to stir up rebellion ... and after his first fall to search out his hiding (in which they failed) and to cause [?dissension and disarray] among the dark East ... They must have had very great influence on the history of the Second Age and Third Age in weakening and disarraying the forces of East ... who would both in the Second Age and Third Age otherwise have ... outnumbered the West."

 Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë) 00:29, May 20, 2017 (UTC)