Sauron had a lot of problems, but he knew how to manage a wetland. The Dead Marshes were one of the environmental gems of Mordor, and an impressive nature-based solution to help remediate the environmental damage caused by the corpse issue after the Battle of Dagorlad
For those interested, the real-life filming location of the Dead Marshes was the Kepler Mire in NZ. It is a string bog, which means little islands dotting wide stretches of saturated vegetation. Gollum would have known the ways between the islands! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Mi…
@DantheClamMan Made me laugh. But the Dead Marshes weren't actually in Mordor, were they?
@DantheClamMan Reminds me of the zone between North and South Korea. No mans land where all manner of life flourishes due to humans worried about the threat of imminent death by opposing armies.
@DantheClamMan I'm very curious about the microbiology 😬