Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-28178921-20171206203020/@comment-32865299-20171207161058

I'm not saying Tolkien did state that. But they can't have no Metalworking skill or else they can't do a bunch of things: Scavenge and change Rohirric armor, Know what Chainmail is, and simply even know what metal is. They had to have some​ metalworking capacity or knowledge.

Take America for instance they had no idea what metal even was until the Spanish came. The idea of Metal spread in Europe but if your secluded like Americans it can't spread to you. Now Dunlendings are secluded? Yes, but they raid Rohirrim and take their gear, if they had no metalworking capacity they wouldn't even know that the gear is useful. They have to know some ​metalworking or else they wouldn't even know what Metal is.

Adornland is made up of both Dunlendings and Rohirrim, So Adornlings know how to metalwork and thus they trade with Dunland and a Dunlending asks "Hey how do you make this stuff?" then the Adornling answers "Wanna come see?" and thus a Dunlending learns metalworking.