I already did propose that maybe the Sindar wear Helmets more similar to dwarf-Helms...
perhaps similar to Vendelhelm types:
at least they should look visibly different from the Noldo Helmets, although maybe at later times, in Gondoloin where we´ll have a somewhat mixed culture, we could also add noldorin-like crestsm spikes ands Wings to them...
Yeah sure! At the beginning... but they very soon come into the service of the noldor... they become soldiers, get outfitted, even live in the elven fortresses or their proximity. What they get from the elves... i doubt they have money, they get lands and elvish luxury goods.
Maybe Men have boiled leather for armor? Wouldn’t be too much of a stretch if they know how to create fire.I doubt they have much armor other than things traded with dwarves before in the east.
It probably wouldn’t be too much of a stretch. Humans in the real world have been deliberately using fire for tens of thousands of years, and there is some evidence that it predates Homo sapiens by a bit. And, when we meet men in the text, it’s unclear just how long they’ve been around, so however Eru caused men to be, I’d assume that they are using fire by the time they meet the Eldar. So they could use boiled leather, boar or walrus ivory, shark skin (if they happened to live near a coast) or any number of things for armor if they had cause to make armor—which is another question. Did any of the groups of men have cause to make armor (I’m assuming yes, if only to protect themselves from orcs, beasts, and other toothy things that want to eat them), and if so, was it ever for war? Even small scale tribal war? I’m just starting a reread of the Silmarillion, so I can’t actually remember if it says or not. (I’m sorry, I feel like I’m diverting this thread from the elves. This is the last men-centric post I’ll make in this thread.Maybe Men have boiled leather for armor? Wouldn’t be too much of a stretch if they know how to create fire.