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So essentially the movies portrayal of the actual strength of Elves, Numenoreans and magic is absolutely horrible? Come to think of it, weren't orcs meant to be a great deal more disciplined and well equipped in the books? Now, at least movie wise, Middle Earth would be in much hotter water...

But they've bugger all cavalry. Numenoreans might be supermen, but I don't think they can run faster than a horse. Neither can Dwarves or Elves. This, by the way, is how the Mongols won a shit ton of their battles. Engage the enemy, force them to chase after you, pick them apart with arrows as...

The Mongols would just starve them out in that case. There's no relief force coming that can deal with them. A single tumen would be left to keep aforementioned fortification surrounded and cut off, whilst the rest of the Mongol army burns everything within a hundred miles. Elves? Good...

That might actually be a win scenario for Middle Earth. Infighting made the Mongols manageable, and the One Ring can turn brother on brother like nothing else. Still, there'd probably be a detatchment of about thirty thousand Mongols, under competent command, rampaging through the North...

It is the year 3019 of the Third Age, and the War of the Ring has begun. Via Tzeentch or some other cruel god being a twat, Ghengis Khan along with some of his top generals (Subutai among them) arrives via portal with ten tumen of Mongol horesmen (a hundred thousand troops) right in the heart...