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Old 05-04-2014, 10:07 AM   #1
William Cloud Hicklin
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William Cloud Hicklin is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.William Cloud Hicklin is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.William Cloud Hicklin is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.
Other than the Rohirrim, who are described in some detail, we don't know a lot at all. Plainly Dwarves favored axes or mattocks and unsurprisingly wore high-quality mail. The Goldolindrim also wore mail, and "the harness and arms of the least of them" would have been worth a mortal king's ransom. The Hardarim, besides mumakil, appear to favor scimitars and maintained substantial cavalry, and Sam's dead one at least wore brazen scale armor. Some Easterlings like axes as well. Thranduil's army at Erebor was armed with spears; we might assume swords or long knives/seaxes (like Legolas) as well but it's nowhere stated. It seems the Galadrim used longer, heavier bows than their cousins in Mirkwood.

Otherwise, except for the 'Gladden Fields" material on Numenorean/proto-Gondorian gear and tactics, we have very little. We don't even know what kind of armor Imrahil's Swan-knights wore!
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Old 05-04-2014, 11:15 AM   #2
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They are heavy knights.they should wear heavy armour,maybe like medieval knights.and,do battle wagon canonical?also,apparently many northern kingdom favour bow,the bardings have good archer,just like the elves.
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