alia-andreth:

Pantscanon

As per the usual fan depiction the Noldor didn’t wear pants in Valinor, just long robes. Valinor being a fairly gentle climate, for the most part. And when the Feanorians got into Beleriand they encountered the Sindar wearing pants and their reaction was similar to the Romans and Greeks when they encountered pants-wearing Germanic tribes: Ew pants are for the uncivilized we will never dare wear such horrid things. And then the cold winds of Beleriand blew upon their genitals and they changed their mind pretty quick.

The Nolofinweans of course had discovered the merits of pants somewhere along the Helcaraxe.