Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26149161-20160321154543/@comment-26149161-20160323193229

I want to remove plate simply mecause it isn't mentioned at all in the book, while mail is for all races. And the thing is, it took a long time for plate armor to become better than chainmail irl. Tolkien obviously wanted everyone to wear chainmail, and because of that I think it would be great for us to conform to his original intent, not Peter Jackson's. You say it is unrealistic? But why would Thorin and the other dwarves be stated as wearing chainmail? If they had plate, they would have worn it. But they didn't and so it has no place in ME.

Faenor, my only objection is that Gil-Galad was stated as wearing "mail overlayed with silver" in the books, and I feel that had they plate armor, they would have worn that.