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<blockquote data-quote="zug_zug" data-source="post: 985994" data-attributes="member: 12382"><p>Hmm Im not sure of the numbers at Helms Deep in LoTR, but I have always thoguth that the orcs greatly outnumbered the people of Rohan there since they were pretty well scattered and unorganized at the time of the battle.</p><p></p><p>As for the demographics, it is hard to judge by what Tolkien says (or rather doesnt say). Tolkien leaves alot of the canvas blank in regards to Rohan so we dont know what the other settlements there were like-if they existed.Given the make up of the kingdom its probably safe to assume most people lived in fairly small villages. Also, (I think) it says in LoTR that Rohan sent something like 7000 men to fight in the Battle of Pelennor Fields. So their population must have been great enough to support that many horse warriors.</p><p></p><p>At any rate, like Dinkledog said, the populations of many of the kingdoms have been greatly reduced. Wars with Angmar had destroyed Arnor and its successor states, The Great Plague of the 17th century in the Third Age had decimated the populations of Gondor, Rohan, and the west (the Fell Winters didnt help either). Added to this alot of the elves had gone over the sea to Valinor, so their numbers were reduced too.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: As for orcs, Sauron bred and kept many in Mordor and in the lands of the East, he had them in parts of Mirkwood, and kept many in the hidden places of Moria. Orcs roamed alot of the wild open depopulated expanses of Eriador and had strongholds in what used to be Angmar, Mt Gram and Mount Gundabad. So orcs would be fairly teeming in the world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zug_zug, post: 985994, member: 12382"] Hmm Im not sure of the numbers at Helms Deep in LoTR, but I have always thoguth that the orcs greatly outnumbered the people of Rohan there since they were pretty well scattered and unorganized at the time of the battle. As for the demographics, it is hard to judge by what Tolkien says (or rather doesnt say). Tolkien leaves alot of the canvas blank in regards to Rohan so we dont know what the other settlements there were like-if they existed.Given the make up of the kingdom its probably safe to assume most people lived in fairly small villages. Also, (I think) it says in LoTR that Rohan sent something like 7000 men to fight in the Battle of Pelennor Fields. So their population must have been great enough to support that many horse warriors. At any rate, like Dinkledog said, the populations of many of the kingdoms have been greatly reduced. Wars with Angmar had destroyed Arnor and its successor states, The Great Plague of the 17th century in the Third Age had decimated the populations of Gondor, Rohan, and the west (the Fell Winters didnt help either). Added to this alot of the elves had gone over the sea to Valinor, so their numbers were reduced too. EDIT: As for orcs, Sauron bred and kept many in Mordor and in the lands of the East, he had them in parts of Mirkwood, and kept many in the hidden places of Moria. Orcs roamed alot of the wild open depopulated expanses of Eriador and had strongholds in what used to be Angmar, Mt Gram and Mount Gundabad. So orcs would be fairly teeming in the world. [/QUOTE]
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