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Originally Posted by tom the eldest
Now,im somebody get mad at me,im sorry but i just love asking this kind of question.
Now,we know that numenorean do colonise some places there,but no further mention of it.so if the numenorean are able to colonise the lanf,could the kingdoms of middle earth do so?i mean if there southern kingdom are declaring an assault on middle earth,could the the middle earth kingdom counter-attack?(in this scenario there is NO sauron,no nazgul,just a palin old mordor with lots of orcs in it)
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Once Sauron was removed from Middle Earth, there's no reason, at all, to presuppose that the warring stopped. I think FA meant a whole lotta humans, as the other races faded. But we also know that humans were most able to be influenced by Morgoth from the Void. In fact, there is reference in materials about The Elessar that points out that Morgoth had kind of affected the sun, and that was what The Three were able to ward against.
So, in terms of 'reason' humans war with each other, Tolkien was presupposing that the fractures in the human cultural mind, and the causes of war were due to Morgoth's eternal presence amongst 'us'. A bit like what people say about 'The Devil'.
As for the extent and range of Numenorean colonisation--I have no idea. As far south as Harad, was where the mythology ceases. But, we don't know anything about the far east. And, for example, what became of the Blue Wizards, except that the fell into sorcery (where that variant of lore was given over to 'evil magic')....