In the ensuing year without a summer two hundred million people starve. Biological weapons make a whole continent uninhabitable. Maitimo's captured. Findekáno flies into Angband on a suicide server-destruction mission and Manwë helps him get out with a chip that they're really not sure they should bring back. (They do anyway - they need him -)
They work with the Dwarves; they use nukes too; everyone swears to stop that. They get anti-missile systems up, they catch most of the rockets the Enemy is throwing at them, they disperse people into small cities the Enemy can't find. The planet's population falls from 5 billion to a billion over the slow grind of four centuries, and then the Enemy gives Doriath a Silmaril and launches his final offensive.