the people on this forum are pretty biased against peter jackson's LOTR, due to his embellishment of the book for screen appearances. a lot of the older discussions are based on medieval development as a basis for what is more advanced technologically speaking. a good rule of thumb is: interlocking plate > chain > plate/scale/coat of plates > natural carbon fiber > lacquered leather > cured leather. tolkien was a linguist that specialized in old european languages, and in LOTR he used the feel of old germanic mythos and such as inspiration. the early written records of old germanic (which later became english and german among others) were written about the time that chain dominated the battlefields (during the later fall of rome period or early dark ages). he wasn't an armor specialist or military historian, thus like the average joe he didn't know about why chain was so dominant during that time period and such, as a result he used the terms from old germanic, which in modern terms means chain armor instead of just armor, and all the references in LOTR back up this type of armor as being the best do to the contexts in which the armor is usually mentioned (as it is taken from a time when chain dominated the battlefields).
I have no idea what you just said, but I have the feeling you're wrong.
I'm actually sure you're wrong in one thing, we're not all biased. I love the movies.
Completely wrong.
But if someone says he's doing A, and sticks to concepts laid out in A, and people keep asking why we don't include things from B, and after explaining a zillion times they still keep saying B, B, B! Well...anyone would get a bit cranky. It is of no importance whether we like B or not. We're doing A, because we decided to do A, ok?
'the people' either would refer to a person named 'the people' (or maybe just 'people') or a consesus of people. so not 'all' as assumed, and since i based this off of the anti peter jackson flaming that was going on last time there was a discussion like this i might be wrong since i don't think many of those people are still here.
as for the rest:
tolkien was good with languages
tolkien was a fan of old germanic
tolkien wasn't a military historian
tolkien doesn't go into a great deal in describing the average armor in his books
plate existed before chain
maille was the term for the armor used that was 'netting' style armor or chain armor (as maille meant netting) which ended up being used reduntantly as chainmail.
plates were used to supplement mail, and later mail was used to supplement interlocking plate armor
triglav are these all wrong?? maybe you could expand on your sources or on what about them is wrong?
