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Recneps wrote: Also, drago, you keep relying on the advancement of the forges.. Can you get a quote? The only one I can think of is when it says that Isengard is but a mockery of Sauron's works, which also says that it's smaller, but I can't think of any where it directly says that it's worse. We could probably be speaking of the same quote:

"But Saruman had slowly shaped it to his shifting purposes, and made it better as he thought, being deceived-for all those arts and subtle devices, for which he forsook his former wisdom, and which fondly he imagined were his own came but from Mordor; so that what he made was naught, only a little copy, a child's model or a slave's flattery, of that vast fortress, armoury, prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dur, the Dark Tower, which suffered no rival, and laughed at flattery, biding its time, secure in its pride and its immeasurable strength."

I think this is the quote, and in my interpretation of the eloquent comparison Tolkien does between Isengard and Mordor, Mordor has better equipment.