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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
Military campaigns require large stockpiles of everything. The real problem is where those came from.
I find it impossible to believe that the Witch-king had an army at Minas Ithil the size of the one he had at Fornost and Gondor was able to crush the Angmarian army from afar.
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They (the stockpiles) could come from anywhere. Rhun seems likely, and surely the Witch-King could 'persuade' the Easterlings and Wainriders to give him what he needed in the way of supplies, as well as providing themselves as troops. I don't see it being very hard to slip supplies through the back-door of Mordor, either.
On the size of the army, I agree with you
Kuruharan. But that does not mean the Nazgul-led force could not be effective. War is not fought on paper, and to think that numbers alone make the difference is a lapse in judgement. And one must also take note that Angmar's defeat was already in the past. The power of Gondor could very well have waned in that time just enough to leave the army incapable of responding properly to the situation.
And, why would the Nazgul haunt Minas Ithil? The Witch-King had been humiliated by Gondor before. It makes more sense for him to want to take revenge in a rather violent manner. And from the Witch-King's campaigns in Angmar, we see that he prefers to cause destruction and death, razing entire areas as the army passes. Haunting Ithil after he had taken it is more than reasonable, since that is adding insult to injury, to turn it into a den of evil.