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Originally Posted by Rinfanawen
This battle was fought against the armies of Men and Men alone...aside from a few small Hobbits. The Dwarves were not there either, because the matter did not involve Dwarves at that time. We cannot put all the blame on the Elves just because they happened to be a stronger force. The Elves made their choice, and they decided that it was not their battle to fight.
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In essence, this War was of course very much the Elves' matter: they started making Rings of Power and were lured into this by Annatar/Sauron. If they would have looked through his "Lord of Gifts" disguise, the One Ring wouldn't have been forged and this whole War of the Ring wouldn't have ben necessary.
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Originally Posted by Gurthang
But I still beleive that if Sauron had not spread his forces over five fronts(Erebor, Mirkwood, Lothlorien, Minas Tirith, Rohan), but instead had concentrated on one at a time, he would have had much more favorable results.
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Maybe you've got a point here. Several dictator in history have found out they couldn't fight on too much fronts at the same time without loosing eventually: Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Hitler, Hirohito ...