RoughRomanMemes

By the books it's murkier (especially considering the aversion to daylight), but by the films I'm actually inclined to give the win to Sauron's forces. Between the advantage in metallurgy, endurance, and beasts of war, the Romans are in a very tight spot. Orcish equipment (exempting the Uruk-hai) resembles the better-armed Migration Period tribes, and even if sometimes needing to be driven by whips, are capable of long-distance cross-country movement. Wargs would probably drive Roman horses crazy with fear, even if Mumakil are just walking scorpio targets, and even a single Fell Beast shadowing each concentration of Roman forces (up to nine) would be incredible for harassing them on the march, slowing them to a crawl to ensure security inside of a perimeter of carroballistae.