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It's not far off compared to the Middle Ages: just before the Black Death, the biggest city in Europe was Paris (perhaps 200,000) followed by London (half that). No other town in England exceeded the size of Bristol or Norwich, approx. 40,000.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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