Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26564307-20160423161136/@comment-26172435-20160423180935

Was glass pane actually available to these civilisations? We know the Palantirs were of glass, and there were glass phials ... but glass pane manufacturing requires more advanced technology I believe may not have become available to the commoners of Middle-Earth. A very rough glass shard type of glass windows may have been in use in the technologically most advanced civilisations of the west, like Lindon, the Stiffbeards and the Shire, but I wouldn't expect every Shire home to have very clear look-through glass window panes ... partially transparent stained glass seems okay though, but not all bright. Almost all colours could have been available though, but not through colouring with dyes ... but with mineral rock types, providing specific colours to the glass during the smelting process. If we'd really take it to 'replace vanilla glass making' ... we'd have to redefine the glass smelting & shaping process and make it use sand, chalk, soda-ash (from salt and limestone) and for colouring (mixtures of) ores and/or rock types. :P