Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27831234-20160911184721/@comment-26486187-20160912070654

On a side thought: it has always baffled me how odd it seems that Tolkien describes a world developed into 'early middle-age' level of technology and society ... after many millenia of development. The time-scale of development must obviously have expanded because of ... continuous warring, relative low availability of what, relatively low population density? That's the reason I believe the Dwarves and Noldor would have had plate armour. Both in Khazad-Dum and in Aman there were thousands of years of un-interupted reasearch, and especially the Dwarves, who for a time even worked together with the Elves of Eregion, would have at some point learnt how to make plate armour! Khazad-Dum was a fully-fleged kingdom for round about 9000 years, so in that time they would have gotten better than just mail! To put it into perspective, 9000 years ago was when humans were first starting to cultivate wheat and barley! That is how much time they had! It is so obvious that the Dwarves would discovered the secret to plate armour!