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Perhaps even more significantly, the Stones were designed to focus on a point, not a person or threat. You could use them to confirm an army was present where it was supposed to be, but not to hunt for one without meticulously and exhaustingly trawling the countryside
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Exactly. It's like hunting for enemy warships using spy satellites: if you don't already have a pretty good idea where they are, good luck. The ocean is a big place.
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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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