I rather think that Sauron was desperately trying to regroup after his surprise dis-embodiment in Numenor, and scraping up enough troops just to deal with Gondor. And the notion of offensive ops against Elendil and pre-Last Alliance Gil-Galad/Lindon strikes me as Sauron sticking his head in a hornet's nest. One Nazgul? Curbstomp (let's not forget that the W-K was afraid of one Noldo, Glorfindel. You think he can take an army of them?)
The 3rd Age Angmar project took centuries to pay dividends- against a weak and divided Arnor.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
Last edited by William Cloud Hicklin; 10-15-2020 at 04:52 PM.
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