The population in Middle Earth

[goldfinger]

We can really only take a mediocre sensus calculation of North-western Middle-earth during the Third Age. For the population spikes and drops more in the Third Age than any other. And we really don't have numbers we can compare the so called "very small population" to. It's very likely the number for NW Middle Earth at the time of the War of the Ring are 2-3 half million people, and the rest of Middle earth is 3-4 million Man, Elf, and Dwarf. As I said we just don't know.

Also to answer why so few Men in NW Middle Earth, are you all not forgetting the Great Plague that hit Gondor, Rhovanion, Eriador, and Minhiriath during the Third Age? It killed thousands and thousands of people.
Then there's the Days of Dearth during the Fell Winter. It was during this time the Corsairs and Dunlendings besieged Rohan. The winter killed thousands of people including Hobbits in Eriador during this time.

You guys should try looking at it from a different angle.

[The Might]

Maybe we did.

Originally Posted by goldfinger

You guys should try looking at it from a different angle.

The whole point of a thread such as this is to learn new things off each other. But even still, we are talking about a whole world, which is forever in fear of the darkness of Mordor & beyond. With this in mind, it is valid to question why the population is so low across Middle Earth for all races. A greater danger to the world requires a greater presence of people to defend their countries, by whatever means. Minas Tirith, for example, is the greatest city in Middle Earth (arguably), yet it is tiny!