Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-70.65.188.97-20170811203633/@comment-25915779-20170812185657

The concept of dwarves in Forochel is a stretch but not entirely against lore. In lore we know that Arvedui, last king of Arthedain, fled north to escape from Angmar. He and his company were known to have hidden inside an abandoned dwarven mine for extended periods until they ran out of food and were driven north, where they found the Lossoth.

Now back to the mod, in the mod the northern most fast travel of the Blue Mountains is called "Arvedui's Mines". This means that the mine was in the far northern reaches of the Blue Mountains. According to lore, there's nothing saying where they mines were other than the far north. While it could be possible that blue dwarves went north in search of minerals and metals. These dwarves would not be Longbeards, but Firebeards and Broadbeams of Nogrod and Belegost.

In regards to the suggestion, the idea of fur trimmed armor is very much practical and plausible. Providing a use of the ever abundant and nearly useless fur item would be very beneficial as well as adding depth. Fur trimmed armors would make sense as the mountains and the northern reaches of Middle-earth were known to be rather cold. While any armor certainly could be lined with fur, it doesn't exactly make sense for the chain-mail of Near Harad to be lined with fur. Fur trimmed armor should rather only be craftable for bone, iron, bronze, mithril, Angmar, Gundabad, Blue Dwarven, Dwarven, and Dalishmen armors. This provides a much easier task of adding textures to the game when there are only 12 armor sets (at the moment) which would be available to be fur trimmed. Later on fur could possibly be applied to all armor sets but for now, it seems most practical for the armor sets listed to be able to be fur lined to provide some protection from the harsh Forodwaith cold (who knows, maybe even at certain points in some mountainous biomes could give the cold effect, making these armors even more practical and increasing immersion!)