Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-28153737-20160710231941/@comment-28153737-20160711162823

AlteOgre wrote: Using quartz as a building material is actually rather silly. I'd appreciate it if the mod team would come up with a better purpose for use fo quartz than that weird vanilla solution.

The use of quartz crystals as gem is of course quite obvious, but offers no more than an ornamental purpose.

The use of them in beacons of some kind, in palantirs or in other lore-based magically imbued special items or for the phials to hold special liquors. All for later date I assume.

Note that the walls of the Glittering Caves were covered in shiny crystals and gems.

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Quartz may be usable as pointy or cutting edge on weaponry, like flint. In fact, quartz has the same hardness as flint, but provides sharper cutting edges. Use of quartz in arrows and in a similar weapon set as that of the Tauredain would be an option. I could imagine quartz being at the core of the weapon set of the Avari of the Wild Woods and 'free easterlings' (hildor) of Hildórien.

Not that the Taj Mahal or anything like that is made of quartz in real life...