I sort of see Arthedain's reaction to Earnur's GEF as not unlike that of the beleaguered sixth-century more-or-less "Romans" (of the Papal City and not much else) when Belisarius' vast Eastern Roman force landed in Italy.
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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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