The population in Middle Earth

[ninja91]

Originally Posted by Mansun

One of the flaws in the LOTR appears to be the fact that the world population is quite small, most probably no more than 1-2 million figures from various races. Even a major city, such as Minas Tirith, can only hold around 50,000 people. How can this be? Why are the armies of Gondor & Rohan so small?

You bring up a very good point. You would think that there would be many more cities. Look at Gondor, and how easy it would be to build a city there, yet there are only 15 at most known throughout the whole country. And I guess the armies are so small because they were not prepared to ever have to defend themselves from the likes of Sauron ever again...that is until the Third Age.