Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26863727-20160403215643/@comment-26347028-20160403221040

1. Practise. Makes. Perfect. The whole idea of elves being higher in knowledge (so much so that this is interpreted as "magic") is because of their higher learning abilities. Now, due to their higher knowledge it is also feasible to say that they have also much higher capacity for learning. For instance, a baby can speak properly from the age of two. That seems to show accelerated learning also, which only accentuates my point.

2. But the higher ranking characters will take out many of the lower ranked ones before being overwhelmed. When your character happens to be the best in all of Middle-Earth at something; that's really quite a feat. This doesn't make her unbeatable, but she can easily take out a few of the people surrounding her before going down, and the situation proposed required you defying the laws of physics to first off dodge something moving at 30mph, then pierce boiled leather with a throwing knife. First off, there's no guarantee the knife even hits - and if it's capable of penetrating the armour, it will most likely not.

3. It is impossible for both Orcs and Humans to be immortal, so unless it is a very young elf you are fighting, that is impossible for them to be their equals. Their equipment may be better, but every time they will handle it better - every time. The Eagles were not destroyed. The Iron Hills were not destroyed, Mirkwood was not destroyed, Esgaroth was not destroyed - the Orcs were, and the Orcs had quite a massive advantage. This only further proves my point.