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Thorin Stonehelm wrote: Elestan Larcalaite wrote: Numenorean armour  and weapons were the finest in ME, and you couldnt craft it, as only the Numnoreans knew how and that secret is now long lost there were only a few smiths in the history of ME that surpassed the skill of the dwarves, the men of numenor may have been great smiths but dwarves were better (except for maybe one or two of the greatest numenoreans)

It said in the books that no armour and weapons surpassed those of the Numenoreans, except for those of the Valar.