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170.82.12.221 wrote: High King Ithilion wrote: Frankus2. There is no quote that says they could work with metal, I assure you. And mail is pretty easy to make, compared to a sword which is surprisingly complex.

3. It is a normal axe, not a battle-axe.

Would not their distinctively tall helms imply some degree of metalworking ? If they just stole things i imagine their helmets would look like just everyone else's.

Swords were invented a lot earlier than mail and can be made of copper/bronze while mail is usually steel or iron; so i think it could be possible for them to make swords (Although it would be mostly for leaders and a lot less common than metal axes and spears). Potentially, but they could have been made out of leather and metal scavenged from Rohirric helmets.

Swords were invented before mail, but that wasn't necessarily because mail is that hard to make: mail just hadn't been developed at the time. One of its strengths, in fact, was its simplicity--most blacksmiths could make a bunch of rings and put them together. This suggests Dunland simply didn't have the tools or skills to create much of any metal gear.

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