Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26149161-20160321154543/@comment-26149161-20160324124758

It does make sense, FusRoDah. But saying "there could be plate because Tolkien never wrote anything about it" brings up the Uzi rule, saying that  "there could be Orcs with Uzi submachineguns because Tolkien never wrote anything about it". The thing is, there is just no evidence that anyone got to forging plate. The Dwarves in the Third age are explicitly stated as wearing mail. If they had plate, don't you think Tolkien would have said something about this? Tolkien wanted the armies of LOTR to be from a time before the invention of plate, the "Dark Ages" of Europe.