XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: no.spam@no.spam   
      
   On 9/19/2011 7:14 PM, Stan Brown wrote:   
      
   > I could be wrong, but my impression is that the Númenóreans were at   
   > least as advanced technologically as say the real-life medieval   
   > period.  They would then have had good-quality carbon-steel swords.   
      
   However, Narsil wasn't made by the Numenoreans.   
      
   SQ   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)