The last time the Valar intervened in Middle-earth they obliterated a quarter of the continent, and its shattered survivors all had to be taken to mid-ocean refugee camps.
This would be akin to the nightmare WWIII scenario, of NATO having to resort to nuclear weapons to stop the Soviets.
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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.
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