For he and his knights still held themselves like lords in whom the race of Númenor ran true.Īs for whether the style is original or borrowed, since everybody in Middle-earth wears mail armour, we can say with absolute certainty that everybody's armour has been influenced by the Dwarves, since Dwarves invented mail, as we learn in the Silmarillion:
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Tirelessly he strode from Citadel to Gate, from north to south about the wall and with him went the Prince of Dol Amroth in his shining mail. the sons of Elrond, that few could tell them apart: dark-haired, grey-eyed, and their faces elven-fair, clad alike in bright mail beneath cloaks of silver-grey. Leading the line there came walking a big thick-limbed horse, and on it sat a man of wide shoulders and huge girth, but old and grey-bearded, yet mail-clad and black-helmed and bearing a long heavy spear. There's nothing about Númenorean or Third Age armour in the Silmarillion, but there is in Lord of the Rings, and once again we learn that it's mail all the way: the Gondolindrim were strong and clad in mail, and their ranks shone like a river of steel in the sun.
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Turgon had opened the leaguer of Gondolin, and was come with an army ten thousand strong, with bright mail and long swords and spears like a forest. Thingol's armouries were stored with axes and with spears and swords, and tall helms, and long coats of bright mail for the hauberks of the Dwarves were so fashioned that they rusted not but shone ever as if they were new-burnished.Īnd Ulmo declared to Turgon of what kind and stature should be the helm and mail and sword that he left behind.īut Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crystals and he drew his sword Ringil, that glittered like ice. The armour portrayed in the movies is absolutely unconnected with what Tolkien actually wrote about, so you can't infer anything from them.ĭoriathrin armour was actually Dwarf-made, and was mail, not plate, as we learn in the Silmarillion: