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2There remains the question of what they can find to eat, particularly in devastated lands. Their orconomy seems unsustainable.– Invisible TrihedronCommented Oct 10, 2022 at 0:17
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1@Valorum --- Unfortunately, the good side doesn't tend to take agressive action when Sauron is inactive, so what we have here is an absence of quotes: there are no records of anyone trying to disrupt the build-up of Sauron's forces because that did not happen. That said, there is a remark from Gandalf on precisely this point, and I'll edit that in when I remember its location.– Ian ThompsonCommented Oct 10, 2022 at 8:20
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4@InvisibleTrihedron --- "Neither he [Sam] nor Frodo knew anything of the great slave-worked fields away south in this wide realm [Mordor] ... nor of the great roads that ran away east and south to tributary lands." (The Land of Shadow)– Ian ThompsonCommented Oct 10, 2022 at 8:23
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2'Sauron had plenty of time to build up a large force of orcs' The "no big bosses" conversation between Gorbag and Shagrat suggests that, in the lead-up to the War of the Ring, Sauron didn't so much build up a large force of orcs as take control of an existing large (and militarised) population of orcs that had arisen without his involvement.– Daniel HattonCommented Oct 10, 2022 at 11:18
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1@DanielHatton --- Without his direct involvement perhaps, but the Nazgul re-entered Mordor more than 1,000 years before the War of the Ring started.– Ian ThompsonCommented Oct 10, 2022 at 11:49
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