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Posted by Neithan Turambar on July 21, 2000 at 04:08:09 In Reply to: Re: Anduin posted by Jan on July 20, 2000 at 18:04:20:
: : : : : I think you do some serious overestimations. Tharbad was a small town not a city. There can't have been anything close to 50 000 duneadain and followers in Arnor. This would have constituted a military power to rival the rohirrim. I'm sure Halbarad could have gathered many more if such a population existed, even in a short time (it's not as if they would have live completely dispersed :). Nothing suggests such a high number of elves in Lindon either. Your population estimate of Lindon would seem more correct third age ca. 1400 when Lindon was still a military power. Your estimate of Dunland is in my opinion the poorest. It would make the dunlendings vastly superior to the rohirrim whom they hated with a vengeance. Nothing suggests this. : : Well that depends on what 'official' figures you are allegedly using. The Rohirrim numbered 200,000 in my opinion - the Dunalanders were scattered and caln like - when they united they overran Rohan, so I do have plenty to base my assumption on thank you. : : What do you mean nothing suggests such a high population for Lindon? In comparison to what might I ask?? : : What figures do you have, I am working on a logical use of size of realm against population spread/density : : The figures you appear to suggest are ridiculously small, mine are conservative at best : : Don Q : Your also discussing a work of fiction, which, though very well written, was not written, ( I hazard a guess ) to exact, existing statistics. : Consider how indifferent the topic is, to the plot. Would Tolkien have taken population so heavily into account ? I canīt imagine so, though I am no expert on the man himself. : Jan Hi Jan, assuming you are my friend Jan, nice to see that at least one of those I have introduced here seems to have caught interest- especially now when I have limited time, even for discussing this most interesting subject that I have pondered much upon in the past. NT
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