Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25672535-20160525143315/@comment-26172435-20160526123150

Silver is a crappy constituent for forging stronger metal alloys. Just makes no sense. I could imagine both the smelting and metalworking of Noldoron were better in a sense that they lost some of the knowledge and skill to create pure smelts, quench the smelt effectively and/or work the metal in such a way that it was inherently stronger by avoiding/removing imperfections, for instance through repetitive heating-folding-quenching-hammering ... like the Samurai smiths could.