Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26149161-20150731144946/@comment-26116279-20150731151542

to point out your statement about everything being chaimail and iron helmets is not entirely accurate, armour in the books is described in different ways. and there are some pictures one the covers of the books that give hints about the design (i.e children of hurin's cover) and need i remind you that the elves in the movies almost all had gold or brass colored armour when it explicitly states that they prefer silver, and that the high elves wore silver colored armour (turgon's army was described as a river of SILVER and STEEL, not gold)