Very true, Legolas, but that was a fully assembled host complete with military strategy and the means of carrying out that strategy, aided by more powerful beings. The Elves that the Numenoreans would have come upon would have been scattered and unprepared for the might of the Numenorean fleets. You can never count out the power of the Elves, I suppose, but in this case, had the Valar taken the strange option of doing nothing to defend their land, I think that power would have been overcome.
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...where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defence.
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