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<blockquote data-quote="redwing" data-source="post: 985959" data-attributes="member: 1430"><p>I recently purchased the Atlas Of Middle Earth, and seem often confused when looking at maps. What were the Demographics like on middle Earth? It seems like in the book, the battle at Helms Deep had at least 10,000 warriors battling it out on both sides, but looking through the books there are so few settlements (and the ones that do have city maps show no homes for commoners), that it would be impossible to draw together forces of that many.</p><p></p><p>There seem to be many towns of hobbits all close together, few mountains with dwarves, a couple of forests filled with elves, and human settlements spread at least 100 miles apart from each other (if not more). </p><p></p><p>In Mordor there are but 9 (quickly looking through the settlements, number may be wrong) settlements of orcs. Yet there seem to be no housing for common orcs. AND those 9 settlements seem to be too few to draw together forces of any large numbers.</p><p></p><p>Why so few settlements and so few people in ME?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redwing, post: 985959, member: 1430"] I recently purchased the Atlas Of Middle Earth, and seem often confused when looking at maps. What were the Demographics like on middle Earth? It seems like in the book, the battle at Helms Deep had at least 10,000 warriors battling it out on both sides, but looking through the books there are so few settlements (and the ones that do have city maps show no homes for commoners), that it would be impossible to draw together forces of that many. There seem to be many towns of hobbits all close together, few mountains with dwarves, a couple of forests filled with elves, and human settlements spread at least 100 miles apart from each other (if not more). In Mordor there are but 9 (quickly looking through the settlements, number may be wrong) settlements of orcs. Yet there seem to be no housing for common orcs. AND those 9 settlements seem to be too few to draw together forces of any large numbers. Why so few settlements and so few people in ME? [/QUOTE]
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