Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-30765002-20170221151548

Ok so I am here again and this time im bringing you, the suggestion to give Elves battle-axes,now dont think of this as against lore because of these 3 quotes from the Silmarilion.

"and in that time the Noldor began the smithying of swords,axes, and spears" Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor, page 81

"Thingols armouries were stored with axes and with spears, and swords, and tall helms, and long coats of bright mail" Of the Sindar, page 111

"Then Beleg StrongBow, chief of the marchwardens of thingol, brought great strength of the Sindar armed with axes into Brethil" Of the ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin, page 189

So we can deduct that the Elves did make battle axes and used them as much as they used swords( i think) seeing from the third quote Beleg led a "great force" armed with axes. Now you might wonder these are quotes from the 1st Age, the mods set in the third age. However the rulers of the three kingdoms of the eldar( lothlorien,woodland-realm, Lindon) were from these two clans, for example Amdir lived in Doriath in the First Age and when Amdir led a portion of the Sindar to lothlorien the Sindar replaced the culture of the Nandor living there, and so the art of making battle-axes and using them would have been preserved in lothlorien, also the same could be said for The WoodLand-Realm and Oropher who was also an elf from Doriath. Now on the topic of Lindon i beleive that lindon was mostly filled with the Sindar as Celebrimbor led many of the Noldor to Eregion, however it can be told that Gil-Galad would have continued the art of making battle-axes. Rivendell is pretty easy to explain its made of Noldor of Eregion, and their leader elrond is a noldorin elf so again they would have kept using battle axes.

side note: they wouldnt have used double sided battle axes 