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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Again, they could have received siege engines from Sauron, but we have no proof that they did, and given that Sauron's engines seem to have primarily been manufactured in Mordor it's unconvincing that they had access to them. This Easterling army seems to have derived from northern Rhūn, distantly from Mordor, and they did not receive aid from Dol Guldur because of Thranduil (assuming Dol Guldur, in the middle of the forest, even had any storage of such artillery), so their access to advanced engines seems not especially likely to me. If they couldn't take the gate, whatever artillery they had must not have been very effective, or the defences were simply too strong. The Easterlings' main aim seems to have been to capture the gate, presumably by storming it with Men and perhaps with rams and ladders, but their main recourse like so many ancient sieges would probably be to starve the enemy out. I think had the Easterlings not had cause to waver, the siege would have been protracted and bloody with no clear outcome unless either side could bring reinforcements to their succour.
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A siege of an entire mountain (Erebor) brings to mind the 8-month Crusader siege of Antioch during the First Crusade. There werne't enough men to meffectively close off even the city, a mountain, with dwarf engineering technology able to send out scouting groups, raiding/harassing parties etc. at their own initiative would be highly difficult (at least, without a dragon patrolling around Erebor
). There would presumably be enormous food and storage prepared (again, not unlike castle preparations in the Middle east with large water retaining stone pits). And even Thorin and Company were prepared to put up resistance on a hastily build wall against the combined elf/man army.
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