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Yeah, that is the issue, the difference in power between average Joe and a heroic type in LOTR makes it impossible to judge their tech by our standards, and also would tend to warp how tech works. You have mostly ordinary guys and then this one dude who can straight-up fight 200 orcs and kill...

Not easy to say for sure. Middle Earth tech doesn't always map perfectly to real life due to A: things being usable and still in perfect condition centuries after it was made and B: Supernaturally skilled crafters sometimes make stuff that wouldn't be possible for mere mortals. From how it was...

Longships were used for both War and Trade. The Knarr was used mainly for trade entirely because it was among the smallest vessels the Vikings ever built, and incapable of carrying enough men to be worthwhile in a fight. Go up a single size to a Karve instead, and they used the exact same...

At that tech level, modified civilian ships are full-fledged warships. The designs for civilian and combat craft didn't dramatically diverge until fairly late in the age of sail, certainly not before gunpowder was a thing. No shipyard of that time period should be capable of building civilian...

Yeah... that was a joke. I literally mentioned Aragorn doing the raid in the first paragraph. I can buy them losing the institutional knowledge quite easily, it's more "not managing to rebuild their knowledge base in a time period longer than the Byzantine Empire existed" that feels like a...

There's a few clues about the Gondorian Navy but I'm not aware of any tight explanations. We know the appendices indicate that Aragorn was a skilled sea captain and he led a raid at one point with a "small fleet" so it's apparent some ships existed. Pelargir was Gondor's primary harbor and it...