Haerangil
Well-Known Member
Hmmm...
Getting through chainmail is almost impossible, you'd need something like an estoc or magic elvish stuff which cuts through metal.
The gladius is a perfect weapon in close formation combat, the perfect SIDEARM for a guy with a pilum and a large shield.
Would Tolkien have called a gladius-like weapon a knife? I always imagined the hobbits barrow-blades or the numenorean eket as gladius-like.
Otherwise i agree, i also didn't like the jackson-elf blades much, there should have been more glamdring and anduril-like swords and less naginata-like designs.
I wonder...
Legolas is an archer, a bowman.Could this profession give us any clue about the nature of his weapon? What would have been the typical sidearm of a noble archer but a sword? What type of knife?
A lower class archer would have worn a seax, later an archers pick or bollock dagger. A nobleman? Russian archers seemingly used a boyarin knife a long machete-like weapon, that indeed is not that far from legolas double knives in the jackson films... other noble archers though would have used a sword or long dagger indeed not very unlike a gladius.
Getting through chainmail is almost impossible, you'd need something like an estoc or magic elvish stuff which cuts through metal.
The gladius is a perfect weapon in close formation combat, the perfect SIDEARM for a guy with a pilum and a large shield.
Would Tolkien have called a gladius-like weapon a knife? I always imagined the hobbits barrow-blades or the numenorean eket as gladius-like.
Otherwise i agree, i also didn't like the jackson-elf blades much, there should have been more glamdring and anduril-like swords and less naginata-like designs.
I wonder...
Legolas is an archer, a bowman.Could this profession give us any clue about the nature of his weapon? What would have been the typical sidearm of a noble archer but a sword? What type of knife?
A lower class archer would have worn a seax, later an archers pick or bollock dagger. A nobleman? Russian archers seemingly used a boyarin knife a long machete-like weapon, that indeed is not that far from legolas double knives in the jackson films... other noble archers though would have used a sword or long dagger indeed not very unlike a gladius.
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