Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-103.255.6.102-20161009062643/@comment-26815144-20161018203836

Tolkien said they used bronze, Anyway, have you done ANY ancient history! Look at the Fertile Crescent and you will see that most of the cities had bronze. Then after one city rekt them all with iron they started getting it. Itself how much time you have to get iron, if you don't know how to use it then it's worthless.

And for the last time, Black numeoreans: greedy, super proud, enslave Haradrim, take heavy taxes, died out. They were too proud to share their secrets and giving haradrim iron would have been stupid as they could rise against them.

Only Umbar and the most strongest cities would have had iron due to mordor and the war. But they is only a chance as there were probably more orcs