An excellent opportunity to get lost in some weeds...
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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
It certainly wouldn't be unprecedented historically for a great empire to be expanding its borders while at the same time rotting at the core - and the same went for Numenor. From Tolkien's viewpoint the two would probably be linked, since conquest for its own sake was in his view a mark of degenerate kingship.
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This is true, but I question whether that applies in this case due to the thin population of the Reunited Kingdom and its consequent lack of sustained military resource to expend on expanding the kingdom.
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