Sauron's Armies

Originally Posted by alatar

Where did you observe the "30,000" number? When PJ talks about the army that attacks Minas Tirith, he says something like there are at least 200,000 orcs (of the various tribes) there. You can verify his number by counting individuals in one of their formations, then multipying by the number of those formations.

It's definitely more than 30,000. Why, any backwoods maia could show as many....

I compared the estimated 30,000 orcs (& only orcs) at the Pelennor fields as seen in the film to that of the 10,000 Uruk-Hai army at Helm's Deep. It does seem to me that about 3 times the numer for the former to the latter is about right. Certainly not 200,000, if you use that logic.