top of page
The Nature Of Middle-earth Database
The Númenórean men, being tall and powerful, could shoot with speed and accuracy upon foot from great long bows, whose shafts would carry to great distance (some 600 yards or more), and at lesser range were of great penetration.
—p.340
The English longbow could reach ranges approaching 400 yards, still much less than the Númenórean bows could shoot.
bottom of page