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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
Where is Mordor? Well, it is a society which is not isolated; it is indeed closed off to its enemies, but it works closely with those other cultures which it has subsumed such as Harad and Umbar. Mordor counts amongst its hosts many soldiers and warriors of many different nations; these are well travelled minions, not restricted by staying at home. They wander more than most. I wonder what that means?
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Well, one perhaps trivial explanation is that since Sauron (and for that matter Morgoth and Saruman) was bent on world domination, he couldn't achieve his ends by self-imposed isolation, so he had to be engaged with the outside world enough to be able to take it over.
One the other hand the bad guys who aren't really working for a Dark Lord (for example: Smaug, the Moria Balrog, Shelob) seem quite content to just lurk in their lairs.