No Man's Child - Chapter 9

‘They are a strange company, these newcomers,’ said Gimli. ‘Stout men and lordly they are, and the Riders of Rohan look almost as boys beside them; for they are grim men of face, worn like weathered rocks for the most part, even as Aragorn himself; and they are silent.’

ROTK: The Passing of the Grey Company

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I think now that the Rangers of the North have lost their wits.
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Factoids about the Middle Ages

Newman, Paul. Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, p 237.

On the wearability of armor:

In the winter, metal armor has the same insulating value as an overcoat made of aluminum foil or that heatsink material used in computers to conduct heat away from the chips. (Remember the last time you were outdoors when the temperature was near or below freezing and touched any metal object that had been left out in the cold?) While the quilted clothing under the armor does help some, the heat-conducting property of the metal armor continually transfers all the wearer's vital warmth out of him and into the air as rapidly as possible. This chilling outer surface combined with the moisture trapped in the layers of padded clothing seems to be guaranteed to cause exposure. Though there are no records of this happening, it's also easy to imagine knights getting their lips or other parts frozen to the armor in the same way as that legendary gullible child fooled into sticking his tongue to a flagpole or pump-handle in January.