I am sure that crossbows existed in Middle-earth at the time of the War of the Ring, and thus they must have been used somewhere. I concluded this from the knowledge that the crossbow was indeed a mediaeval weapon, but the longbow was introduced later in history. There were longbows used by archers in ME, and thus there must have been crossbows there as well.
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That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
.................William Wordsworth
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