Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25012056-20160725221323/@comment-25012056-20160727131643

AlteOgre wrote: Hmm ... good argumenting, but countering that I find that even after 2 full ages the elves weren't even able to reproduce the skills of some of their ancenstors. In my opinion that completely negates your notion of Orcs being able to reproduce the smelting, forgeing and smithing skills of Dwarves, without any tutors to guide them ... unless the dwarves must have written it down for Orcs to just read over it and reproduce dwarven teachings ... which is unlikely as the dwarves had to personally train Eol and other elven smiths to enable effective knowledge transfer and skill training. So, nay, Orcs of the dark chasms wouldn't have been able to reproduce the level of knowledge, skill and craftsmenship the Dwarves of Khazad-Dûm once had.

Which is why the durability isn't as good. However, the elven-smiths didn't have much to work off of and likely tried to largely preserve it; the orcs would've had enough dwarven leftovers to arm their entire horde three times over, and they wouldn't care about preservation. The elves didn't have access to the forges used to make the armor, either. The orcs did.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 13:16, July 27, 2016 (UTC)