Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25012056-20160725221323/@comment-26172435-20160727120141

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.