The Temptation of Profit! The Special Nature of Ten Thousand Miles of Smoky Clouds is an Important Bargaining Chip

The Special Nature of Ten Thousand Miles of Smoky Clouds Was an Important Bargaining Chip

For the sake of this war against the Dark Lord Sauron and the Mordor Empire under his command—a war that had stretched on for thousands of years—although the sight of Wang Zhen and the others summoning these strange creatures, neither quite horses nor quite beasts, out of thin air filled Aragorn, the future Human King, with questions, he considered it again and again before ultimately choosing to endure it.

Aragorn, the sole descendant of Middle-earth's human royal bloodline, had even dared, in the third The Lord of the Rings film, to bring the undead who had betrayed his ancestors and their own oaths, becoming a race of spirits unable to find release, back under his command. He had promised that as long as those undead fulfilled the covenant they had made with his ancestors and fought for him, he would pardon those former traitors after the war and allow their souls, which had lingered in the world for thousands of years, to finally rest.

Thus, Aragorn possessed considerable courage. He knew that after the war three thousand years ago, his ancestor Isildur's refusal to heed Elrond's advice and destroy the One Ring after the war had directly prevented the conflict with the Dark Lord Sauron from truly ending. It had also created an irreparable rift in the alliance between humans and elves, leaving it little more than an empty name.

Now that the One Ring, missing for three thousand years, had reappeared, it meant that the war spanning three millennia was about to begin anew. Yet after three thousand years of change, the Mordor Empire of the Dark Lord Sauron had not altered much, while humanity had declined beyond recognition. The only two remaining great