Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-66.41.98.153-20170603042214/@comment-26410366-20170604003339

AlteOgre wrote: The movies are not canon material and therefore provide no valid argument. This has been discussed before and to my knowledge this is a known no-go. Personally, I feel there shouldn't be any crossbows in this mod for the sake of consistency with theme and lore. Only lore argument to have them at all is the mentioning of the Numenorean 'steel bows', which could be interpreted as crossbows, but I don't believe they were meant to be interpreted that way. I think there is another argument, found on the crossbow bolts page.

"But the Orcs laughed with loud voices; and a hail of darts and arrows whistled over the wall […]."

- The Two Towers, Helm's Deep