There were spears in Morrowind - however they made little sense from a minimaxing perspective as they did no more damage than a sword or axe and you needed two hands to wield one and so lost the hefty armour bonus of a shield.

Not sure about Skyrim as I generally wait a few months before buying a new ES game to benefit from the mods but Morrowind also had levitation and flying critters which Oblivion nixed - I truly loved flying everywhere slaughtering cliff racers with my dwarven crossbow.