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> it's about dwarves written specifically being good with bows when they wouldn't be
Thorin's company had been wandering for the better part of a century, and dwarfs in general weren't bound to the inside of mountains. They'd have absolutely reason not to use bows.
>the men of dale going to the battle of five armies in formation with longswords
Tolkien clearly described the men of the third age as being anglo saxon, and since they almost all used shields you'd have to be intentionally dense to not infer what swords they were using.
>muh spears
everyone hates spears.
Arthur and cuchulainn can use them, that's it