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Recneps wrote: Here's how it relates: You say that people could have used the blades to make different sorts of weapons.

I say that the Gondorians could have manned the fortresses in Mordor during the Third Age, and prevented Sauron from reestablishing himself and rebuilding those armies.

Both things would have been decently effective. Neither was done. Well to be fair, they didn't have the numbers to effectively do that.