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170.82.12.221 wrote: High King Ithilion wrote: Potentially, but they could have been made out of leather and metal scavenged from Rohirric helmets. So you think they were lamellar helmets ?

I envisioned them as more like celtic helmets; and i think if the helms were made in the way you described there would be references to that instead of just saying the helmets were tall.

Also my points was not that mail was hard to make just that there were cultures who worked metal but had no mail; and it could be that the Dunlendings were stuck in the bronze age. The reference to the tall helms is so vague I don't think we can draw any conclusions about them. Heck, we can't even tell if it refers specifically to Dunlendings--and it honestly might not.

"For a staring moment the watchers on the walls saw all the space between them and the Dike lit with white light: it was boiling and crawling with black shapes. some squat and broad, some tall and grim, with high helms and sable shields. "

That could be, but in general we don't hear much at all about bronze among Northern factions--only with the Southrons--and anyway, those would still be decently strong weapons, enough to give the Rohirrim more pause than they did. Overall, I'd be cautious about giving too much benefit of the doubt to them--especially when we hear in the tale of Tal-elmar that a group of pre-Numenorean people (related to the Dunlendings), had nothing more than clubs and slings, and knives probably gained by looting invading Northmen.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë)