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On the Sindar: Those of Doriath F.A. were described as being the "axe-Elves," and T describes the hoards of axes Thingol purchased from the Dwarves. This preference may well have been transferred to Lorien and Mirkwood when those realms were "Sindarized under the impact of Beleriandic culture;" and axes also make sense for iron-poor woodland folk. Even if the Wood-elves were primarily spear-armed, they were not a peasant militia and one would assume that, like the hoplites and phalangites, they carried a secondary weapon for close-in work.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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