Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25947183-20150315101555/@comment-25947183-20150315123517

Mandalor the Wolffe wrote: I would say, that Middle-Earth would fit into Medieval times, probably early Medieval, as there are no cannons as I remember, only orc bombs, which were using black gunpowder, which was originally invented on Far East (China) before it came to Europe. I would believe that Saruman, who shows bombs to his Orcs, have learnt this technique from Sauron's eastern allies.

That means that in the fourth age guns might of been invented because they were already using gunpowder in the 3rd age, but then there probably was a large battle in the fourth age which caused men to go back to primitive ways maybe.