Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25931200-20190125200004/@comment-69.242.54.218-20190125224925

The orcs too suffer from this problem. At the end of the first, second, and third ages they were almost wiped out but each time they managed to survive in the misty mountains and angmar mountains. As someone who is into geography, history, and demographics the lack of realistic populations in middle earth has always bothered me. Since Arda is the same size as earth it's population should be at the very least in tens if not hundreds of millions. Dwarves would probably have the lowest population because they live in mountains which wouldn't be able to easily support food production so they would have to import food. I'd say 100,000 is the bear minimum with anywhere up to 1,000,000 being realistic. With these numbers the dwarves wouldn't be to difficult to exterminate realisticly speaking (if any orcs or elves are interested). Elves would probably be next. I'm not very familiar with the first age but I will say that the elvish population would have been significantly larger; I'm also not takeing the elves living in Aman into consideration. Rivendell is just a small colony so less than 100,000, Lorien would be bigger however a forest is a terrible place for a civilization so I'd say less than a million, same for the woodland realm. We dont know how advanced the avari are but the wild woods are so massive that is say at least 3,000,000. Lindon is difficult, on the one hand the geography is actually good but on the other the three biggest cities Mithlond, Harlond, and Forlond are show to be way too small. I'd say 5 - 10 million.