Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27200931-20170214212507/@comment-25012056-20170219004703

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)