Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26486187-20170504001959/@comment-29773086-20170504234552

Just read the Appendices. You don't need to speculate when we have concrete information.

To point out a couple of innacuracies:

-Minas Morgul was not reoccupied for a long time (perhaps ever) after the defeat of Sauron.

-Pretty much all of Harad and Rhûn were either conquered by the RK and Rohan, or submitted to their rule.

-The Orcs of Mordor were fully defeated after the destruction of the One. Any who still lived retreated to their holes and slowly died out.

-The Dwarves waited until under Durin II's reign to retake Moria. Many possible reasons for this.

-The Dwarves didn't really die out, just receded and retreated to their mountain halls after a short time of expansion, due to the growing world of Men.