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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8833338" data-attributes="member: 58197">&quot;Frodo and Sam gazed out in mingled loathing and wonder on this hateful land. Between them and the smoking mountain, and about it north and south, all seemed ruinous and dead, a desert burned and choked. They wondered how the Lord of this realm maintained and fed his slaves and armies... Neither [Sam] nor Frodo knew anything of the great slave-worked fields away south in this wide realm, beyond the fumes of the Mountain by the dark sad waters of Lake Nurnen; nor of the great roads that ran away east and south to tributary lands, from which the soldiers of the Tower brought long waggon-trains of goods and booty and fresh slaves.&quot;Tolkien doesn't dwell on this, because &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; has a story to tell and the reader is not generally interested in hearing the details of Mordor's logistical arrangements. But he put a lot of thought into making the logistics of everything work. The only part that really doesn't fit is the technology level of the Shire (which has many anachronisms from Victorian England); Tolkien himself noted this in his letters, but he had inherited it from &quot;The Hobbit&quot; and was more or less stuck with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8833338, member: 58197"] "Frodo and Sam gazed out in mingled loathing and wonder on this hateful land. Between them and the smoking mountain, and about it north and south, all seemed ruinous and dead, a desert burned and choked. They wondered how the Lord of this realm maintained and fed his slaves and armies... Neither [Sam] nor Frodo knew anything of the great slave-worked fields away south in this wide realm, beyond the fumes of the Mountain by the dark sad waters of Lake Nurnen; nor of the great roads that ran away east and south to tributary lands, from which the soldiers of the Tower brought long waggon-trains of goods and booty and fresh slaves." Tolkien doesn't dwell on this, because "The Lord of the Rings" has a story to tell and the reader is not generally interested in hearing the details of Mordor's logistical arrangements. But he put a lot of thought into making the logistics of everything work. The only part that really doesn't fit is the technology level of the Shire (which has many anachronisms from Victorian England); Tolkien himself noted this in his letters, but he had inherited it from "The Hobbit" and was more or less stuck with it. [/QUOTE]

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