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High King Ithilion wrote: FusRoDah666 wrote: "What can I do against such reckless hate?" :P XD

@MrHobit1234

When someone thinks he is proving that someone else is disproving his own argument...

And how did I disprove my own argument? I just asked something... And it would even make sense, that they could smith plate armour. I take everything (or atleast most...) back, if Ithilion is right about that we "know" that there really was no plate armour (Btw I'm interested from where you got this information, Ithilion).

Just saying: As if no one would have thought about stronger armour than chain... It seems so unrealistic for me o_o Chainmail is actually very strong armor, and there was no need for anything better. Since they could bake it so easily and it was so effective, there's no reason to search for more types.

You ask where I get my information? Tell me, is there a single instance where plate armor is mentioned in the book? No. It is always mail, hauberks, coats of chain, etc. Not even in the halls of Erebor is there plate armor, for Thorin wore a golden mail-coat.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lome) 21:45, February 20, 2017 (UTC) I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings and yes, plate armour wasn't mentioned, but it also wasn't said that it doesn't exist. So that it is proved, that no plate armour existed is not true.

The only two reasons I see to not have plate armour is, that it's 1. heavy and 2. really expensive.

And I also didn't want to say that eveeryone should wear full-body plate armour, but as I said before plate armour pieces (helmets, shoulder plates, bracers, etc.) are needed for every good armour (atleast if you want to have better protection than leather). So yeah, a good way to not completly remove plate armour would be to just give "better" units armour plate armour pieces and standard units, so the main part, would have chain, leather and fur armour (not to forget scale, etc.).

I think that would be a good way, with that we could both live ^^