Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27200931-20170214212507/@comment-25012056-20170219131222

High King Ithilion wrote: As for the numbers, here is what I would say.

FREE PEOPLES

- 5000 Garrison of Minas Tirith and Rammas Echor

- 1000 Guards of the Citadel

- 2,250 Warriors of the Outlands (200 Lossarnach Axemen, 300 Men of Ringlo, 500 Blackroot Archers, 300 Anfalas Men, 50 Hillmen of Lamedon, 100 Men of the Ethir, 400 Knights of Dol Amroth, and 700 Men at Arms)

- 300 Company of Ithilien

- 6000 Rohirrim

- 36 Dunedain of the North with the Sons of Elrond and the Three Hunters

- 20000 Men of the Fiefs left behind to fight the Corsairs (a tenth of their strength was sent to the Pellennor). 5000 followed Aragorn to battle.

TOTAL: 34,583, with 19,583 fighting at the Pelennor

I find it likely that there were more Gondorians stationed elsewhere during the Siege of Gondor, but not a huge amount more. That would bring the total to 40,000. Also, the Rohirrim left 6,000 behind to guard their lands, bringing our number to 46,000 Men of the West defending Gondor and the Mark.

ENEMIES:

- 30000 Orcs of Mordor

- 20000 Orcs of Minas Morgul

- 38,000 Haradrim (18000 at Minas Tirith, plus 20000 attacking the Southern Fiefs)

- 10000 Easterlings

- 4000 Corsairs of Umbar

- 4000 Variags

- 1000 Men of Far Harad

- 50 Morgul Knights

TOTAL: 107,050 Forces of Mordor, with 87,050 fighting at the Pelennor.

Of course, this number is but a portion of Sauron's host, which I will not calculate in full. I find it likely that he had a million fighting Orcs in Mordor, and of course the Easterlings had massive numbers in Rhun.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lome) 12:51, February 19, 2017 (UTC)

Thorough. Nice job.

As for Sauron's total numbers, we can estimate that they were at least five times the Pelennor force, based on the finger of the Black Hand analogy, though that may be stretching it. Nonetheless that's half a million at the least.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 13:12, February 19, 2017 (UTC)