He never gives a detailed description of what exactly someone is wearing, but he either has people in leather jerkins or mail, and the weapons are all conventional early middle ages weapons. Specifically he never mentions plate armour or even crossbows. The impression he gives is that every battle for ten thousand years, just kind of looks like the Battle of Hastings, but with trolls and dragons and eagles.
I believe the Silmarillion does say how men were more 'primitive' than the elves and they only developed a civilized culture once they reach Numenor. But they were primitive in that they were less organized, like a big roving mob, once they settle down somewhere they immediately became like the elves of Belariand and just stayed like that for 3,000 years. So I think the first Numenorians would look like a peasent guy with a tunic and a big axe and after 100 years they all looked like the late Second Age guy.
Interesting. Definitely seems odd in terms of development.
Although I'd say this isn't exclusively a Tolkien problem, I feel like a lot of fantasy settings end up feeling like they're in some kind of technological limbo. ASoIaF also seems to have had basically no new tech happen for millenia.
He never gives a detailed description of what exactly someone is wearing, but he either has people in leather jerkins or mail, and the weapons are all conventional early middle ages weapons. Specifically he never mentions plate armour or even crossbows. The impression he gives is that every battle for ten thousand years, just kind of looks like the Battle of Hastings, but with trolls and dragons and eagles.
I believe the Silmarillion does say how men were more 'primitive' than the elves and they only developed a civilized culture once they reach Numenor. But they were primitive in that they were less organized, like a big roving mob, once they settle down somewhere they immediately became like the elves of Belariand and just stayed like that for 3,000 years. So I think the first Numenorians would look like a peasent guy with a tunic and a big axe and after 100 years they all looked like the late Second Age guy.
Interesting. Definitely seems odd in terms of development.
Although I'd say this isn't exclusively a Tolkien problem, I feel like a lot of fantasy settings end up feeling like they're in some kind of technological limbo. ASoIaF also seems to have had basically no new tech happen for millenia.