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Old 03-02-2009, 08:10 AM   #45
Tuor in Gondolin
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Originally posted by Kuruharan
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The axe is not exactly a handy weapon for fighting people taller than you are as you expose yourself even more when you make your stroke.

I think a better way would have been if the dwarves fought more along the lines of the Roman legionaries whose fighting style was made to order (literally) for short people fighting taller ones.
This is semi-off topic, but that's one bit in PJ's FOTR prologue
that seemed absurd, the elves using very long scythe-type
weapons. It looks impressive but after one swipe they'd be
helpless to attack. Far better in such an orc melee charge would
be legionairre tactics and use of the gladius and a small shield.
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