Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25672535-20160525143315/@comment-25672535-20160527160121

Forten wrote: Narvin wrote: AlteOgre wrote: Silver is a crappy constituent for forging stronger metal alloys. Just makes no sense. I could imagine both the smelting and metalworking of Noldoron were better in a sense that they lost some of the knowledge and skill to create pure smelts, quench the smelt effectively and/or work the metal in such a way that it was inherently stronger by avoiding/removing imperfections, for instance through repetitive heating-folding-quenching-hammering ... like the Samurai smiths could. Well this mod isnt a complete miror of reality and neither are the books Why do I see so many people using this argument to imply a justification of irreality? Since so many things in Tolkien's universe are based off real life, it would be an extention of his intentions to base non-canon materiel off it, too. What foundation other than reality do we have to create things from, to stop us thinking up giant pink pandas as plausible sea-life? Star Wars isn't a complete mirror of reality by far either, but real science is often pulled in. Except for the fact that this part of Tolkiens work is cannon. I agree many things were based on real life, however in the books it did specifically say the elves used silver in their smelting. I do Bielefeld this was one of his later publications so it's highly unlikely he was talking about mithril. The purpose of this mod is to mirror the books as close as possible, and as this was referenced in a book it makes since that this has a place in the mod.