Timeline for Why Were the Weapons in Middle-earth So Rudimentary?
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| Mar 7, 2022 at 15:42 | history | edited | DavidW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2019 at 12:05 | comment | added | Mithoron | I'm not exactly getting the point here. Old weapons were quite "empowered". For eg. single strike of knife from Barrow-downs broke Witch-kings protection from weapons. | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 14:03 | comment | added | Pryftan | @PaulD.Waite Or more correctly the Battle of the Hornburg. Sorry I’m just in a pedantic mood (well I almost always am but usually I don't even bother here). Don't recall that quote but it could be just the way you word it...Doesn't mean that it's not there of course but ... | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 14:01 | comment | added | Pryftan | Nitpick: It's not a trilogy. But if you consider the time of his world.. it's of course reasonable to expect older weapons. He does however state in a letter that now (the year he wrote it and I can't recall off hand) we are in a much older Age; seventh or eighth? Something like that. | |
| Aug 6, 2015 at 0:46 | history | edited | Wad Cheber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 18, 2015 at 23:05 | answer | added | Oldcat | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 21:28 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 17, 2013 at 13:14 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | I remember a couple of men in the background of the Battle of Helm’s Deep with spears plunged into their guts saying “Hah! This weapon — gurgle — is positively rudimentary!” | |
| Dec 17, 2013 at 12:54 | answer | added | fantasywind | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 12, 2012 at 14:15 | answer | added | JMD | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 12, 2012 at 0:03 | history | edited | dlanod |
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| Jun 11, 2012 at 4:14 | history | edited | dlanod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2012 at 15:13 | comment | added | user6768 | You should also note, that Tolkien's books predate most fantasy novels. D&D and other games and settings did not exist, they came about in part due to Tolkien's work. Sauron was "born" in the First Age, and his power is much greater than that of the weapons and items that came afterwards. | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 3:42 | vote | accept | Slytherincess | ||
| Mar 10, 2012 at 15:13 | answer | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | timeline score: 19 | |
| Mar 10, 2012 at 11:00 | answer | added | Alenanno | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 10, 2012 at 4:25 | comment | added | Kevin | The Elves didn'r really do "magic," at least they wouldn't say so. See this question: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8864/can-the-elves-do-magic | |
| Mar 10, 2012 at 4:15 | comment | added | Kevin | The Ford of Bruinen defense was by Elrond (and Gandalf, according to lotr.Wikia). | |
| Mar 10, 2012 at 4:11 | answer | added | dlanod | timeline score: 80 | |
| Mar 10, 2012 at 3:28 | history | asked | Slytherincess | CC BY-SA 3.0 |