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Whether it is the Age of Gunpowder or not makes no difference. They still relied on horses to pull everything from cannon to supply wagons.
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A valid point. And the fact that since Napoleon's campaign also failed has nothing to do with me conceding this point.
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You are not listening, again. I never said he'd use the sea. I was focused mainly on the ability to forage. Also, the Crusaders received very little in the way of supplies, especially in the First Crusade. I don't suppose you got the message that they were starving when they were sieging Antioch, as well as other fortifications. Had the Muslim armies managed to actually join together and isolate the Crusaders, what little aid the Byzantines provided wouldn't have helped either.
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I’m afraid I have to strongly object to this. You are the one who is not listening and failing to comprehend the situations.
Of course, you didn’t say the Witch-king would use the sea. He had no access to the sea, it would be irrelevant to the campaign. My point was that he
couldn’t where as the crusaders had access to the sea and the First Crusade would probably have failed without it (see the arrival of the Genoese and English ships on 17 June 1099). The mere presence of the sea utterly changes the strategic situation and makes the siege of Minas Ithil and the siege of Jerusalem utterly different in nature (Now there’s a statement I never thought I would have to utter).
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No, it does not rely on the complete inertia of Gondor. You only think that.
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As far as I can tell, you don’t think Gondor did anything except hunker down for fear that the assault on Minas Ithil was some sort of bizarre two-year diversion. Perhaps you have some different definition of the words “utter inertia” in mind.
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They are not invulnerable.
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No, but I think the strategic situation heavily favored them in a conventional military campaign at that time.
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People did not stop traveling in this time period. Word would get around, and I imagine it would not take too long.
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The Gondorians that were there were not there to sightsee. They were soldiers on campaign. And why would anybody mention the Barrow-downs. Who would have been interested in it at the time?
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And yet no mention of a 'Haunting' of Ithil. How odd
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By that time they understood what had happened.