query: In "Desolation of Smaug", why were Sauron's legions of orcs dispatched before Smaug had fallen?
positive_passages.docid: 147022
positive_passages.text: Why does Sauron (in the movieverse) attack Erebor instead of, say Gondor or the Woodland Realm?
negative_passages.docid: 106304
negative_passages.text: Sauron, Gollum, and the ring
negative_passages.docid: 8190
negative_passages.text: What is the point of Sauron making the One Ring?
negative_passages.docid: 156914
negative_passages.text: Did Saruman deal with Sauron?
negative_passages.docid: 15013
negative_passages.text: Did the date of Frodo's rescue out of the fire of Mordor have any particular meaning in The Lord of the Rings?
negative_passages.docid: 81789
negative_passages.text: Why or how did Smeagol's "name" became Gollum?
negative_passages.docid: 128035
negative_passages.text: What is in the east of Middle-earth, and why is it all subservient to Sauron?
negative_passages.docid: 34302
negative_passages.text: What happened to those killed by Thanos before the Snap?
negative_passages.docid: 64033
negative_passages.text: How much did Tolkien write about the worshippers of Sauron? The Easterlings, the Harad, the Khand
negative_passages.docid: 43344
negative_passages.text: Discrepancy in "Towers of Midnight"
negative_passages.docid: 23536
negative_passages.text: Where do Orc babies come from?
negative_passages.docid: 17793
negative_passages.text: Why didn't Aragorn keep going with the army of the dead?
negative_passages.docid: 155685
negative_passages.text: Why is Sauron called "the Necromancer"?
negative_passages.docid: 24979
negative_passages.text: Why didn't Gollum kill Frodo and Sam?
negative_passages.docid: 69581
negative_passages.text: Why did Sauron keep Mount Doom alive after forging of the One Ring?
negative_passages.docid: 67125
negative_passages.text: Who made the decision for Gandalf's promotion from 'grey' to 'white'?
negative_passages.docid: 142810
negative_passages.text: Why didn't Eru stop the Dark Lords from causing trouble in Middle-earth?