What and where was the logistical network to keep this massive army operational?
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Krishna could throw a mountain over this army, and not in fantasy
>>215565242Look into Sauron's tax policy and you'll understand
>>215565242Certainly not on the front line genius.
They launched heads across the walls, what they'd do with the rest?Was meat back on the menu, boys?
>>215565242Maggoty bread is not that hard to produce and transport
>>215565242Are you fucking retarded? It's not that far from Gondor, and most of the southern parts of Mordor is farmland that is farmed by slaves, prisoners and allies of Sauron.
>>215565242>What and where was the logistical network to keep this massive army operational?Did you miss the part where Sauromon razed the woodlands and turned them into an Orc breeding ground?
>>215565716meat was never an option
>>215565242their camp is just outside of the camera view
>>215565242Mordor and the human civilizations to the east and south of Mordor that worshipped Sauron
>>215565242Why was gondor in mexico?
>>215565750how do evil murder monsters that do nothing but fight and kill each other engage in agriculture on such a scale that it can supply millions in an ecosystem that is devoid of vegetation and extremely harsh/toxic weather?
>>215565242In Mordor you retard.The movies made it look like Mordor is just some valley a few kilometers wide because the movide downsized everything, but Mordor is meant to be a whole country.
You're worried about feeding them? I'm worried about the REAL important details: Where do fhey shit? All those orcs on a diet of maggoty bread, and we do not see a SINGLE ditch or latrine. Those trolls, mumakil, whatever, too. Mordor has to be producing tons and tons of shit and we never once see where the orcs take shits or how their shits overwhelm Mordor's primitive plumbing capacity
>Literal death landscape that nobody can tolerate for long>Devoid of anything healthy or life>No vegetation>somehow its population is massively larger than the rest of Middle-Earth which is green and lush and not covered in volcanic axe and perpetual nightThis would be like Greenland having a larger population than the rest of the world combined
>>215565242>"I don’t like the look of things at all," said Sam. "Pretty hopeless, I call it – saving that where there’s such a lot of folk there must be wells or water, not to mention food. And these are Men not Orcs, or my eyes are all wrong.">Neither he 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 LakeNúrnen; 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 freshslaves. Here in the northward regions were the mines and forges, and the musterings of long-planned war; and here the Dark Power, moving its armies like pieces on the board, was gathering them together.
>>215566164How do they transfer such large amounts of food/water/supplies many hundreds of miles? Imagine if you will medieval China, but 80% of its a toxic hellscape but the population is fed there by far-off fertile regions in like Afghanistan.
>>215565242You mean the entire planet they have dedicated to them? The logistics they didn't show because that's boring and not related to the plot >What's Aragons tax policy Fuck off
>>215566199>it's not supposed to make sense, stop thinking about it or questioning it.
>>215566184Slave work, enhanced by Sauron's will. Also, Lake Núrnen isn't too far away from Barad-dur in a straight line, and since it's all inside Mordor, Sauron doesn't have to worry with attacks to his supply lines.
>>215566145>uhm actually this obscure tolkien letter says Mordor was lush and fertile on the side we never see
>>215566261>enhanced by sauron's willlmaobtw you can't maintain agriculture through slavery this is why Sparta had so many famines and were unable to operate in large-scale wars for long.
>>215566145>This would be like Greenland having a larger population than the rest of the world combinedIt does, from a certain point of view.
>>215566273It's not an "obscure Tolkien's letter", it's right there in the book's text, you window-licker.>>215566277I'm just assuming it works the same as with Sauron's will explicitly enhancing his troops in battle:>But the Nazgul turned and fled, and vanished into Mordor’s shadows, hearing a sudden terrible call out of the Dark Tower; and even at that moment all the hosts of Mordor trembled, doubt clutched their hearts, their laughter failed, their hands shook and their limbs were loosed. [b]The Power that drove them on and filled them with hate and fury[/b] was wavering, its will was removed from them
Most pre-early modern armies lived off the land and requisitioned food and resources from the local peasants and towns they marched through and/or took over. There were often laws even requiring you to house and provide necessities to friendly armies which is why the US made the 3rd amendment because they were tired of having to quarter British soldiers. But it was tricky because the locals wouldn’t always cooperate and plundering and banditry would often lead to attrition and be good propaganda to rally enemies against you with. By the early modern period as armies became more professional they began standardizing more and having substantial wagon train supply lines but this was limited mainly to conflicts between European nations on the continent as it was more expected between 2 civilized belligerents. Napoleon was rather infamous because he broke with this and had his new corps system of small armies centered around a single command who would live off the land. It’s how he pulled off major victories as his enemies would engage a small force and quickly get swamped by the other corps which rapidly converged. The Russians beat him by scorching the land so the ere was no food or shelter so most of his army died there and he lost the war.
