Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26863727-20160403215643/@comment-26347028-20160403230130

Aramirtheranger wrote: 1. EVERYONE. HAS. A. PEAK. Elves reach it faster, that is actually a BAD THING. It gives less chance to learn diverse things, explaining their extremely slow rate of change.

2. Leather armor is actually complete shit in a single layer.

3. My point was that the ORCS ALMOST WON, AGAINST ALL OTHER RACES IN THE NORTH.

4. This whole thing is referring to people who use these to say that their crap is unbeatable.

5. You are one of the Immortal Fanboys.

6. So is Argali.

7. Several individuals overestimate Dwarves as well.

8. Almost everybody dismisses Humans who aren't Numenoreans as crap. Excuse me, but who did most of the fighting against evil in the Third Age? Elves are slow to act, to the point that I have seen a lot of people who are less versed in lore say they must be mostly pacifists. Dwarves are often unhealthily obsessed with the past glory of their Race, to the point of 13 Dwarves once setting out to reclaim a fortress city from a dragon, with only a Hobbit for permanent company, and only managing it by a combo of blind luck and the generosity/security paranoia/weird mannerisms/superstitions of others.

As to Elves being amazingly smart and wise, I can't even count all the poor decisions made by Elves throughout the years. 1. Which is why Elves are always stated to be better versed in lore, better taught generally, better at smithing, etc. the light of the Two Trees will have some effect, but certainly not to the extent the rest of it would have.

2. It will still deflect a small knife, and as I said anything larger is probably a miss. Another point I'd like to make is I pointed out in the RP that it was leather and mail, but no one made a move against it.

3. All other races in the North? Where were the Lossoth? The Remnants of Arnor? The Northern Avari? The Northern Orocarni? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they weren't there.

4. Which I don't, but I'm pointing out it's not as weak as you think.

5. Well, that's rather impossible seeing as I'm a girl...

6. Sure, and you hate anything to do with Elves. 7. But not as much as you underestimate every single race. This is clearly shown here.

8. Who fought evil most in the Third Age? Well, Gondor, Ithilien and Lothloriën. Those are both descendants of Numenorëans or Elves. Think again. Slow to act? How about being under siege? It happened to Lothloriën, and Mirkwood fared little better. Rivendell did what it could, and Lindon was a defensive measure if all else fell. You cannot expend all energy on a single push and expect not to die afterwards when it fails; precautions were made. Those 13 Dwarves were sent by Olorin, might I point out? He managed to get the Elves, the Dwarves, and the men, to ally outside of that city. That was nothing short of a miracle, and ensured the survival of many of those realms.

9. Then how about you give it a shot? There's a reason behind almost every one of them.