Technician

A Technician is a highly skilled or semi-skilled worker in the field of technology.A Technician may be a specially Master-Craftsman or a practical working Scholar.A Technician may also be an engineer or mechanicf working with tools and machinery, an Artist, a Pioneer working with War Engines or an Inventor, Constructor or Artisan like a Watchmaker or Toymaker.

In Middle-Earth foremostly the Dwarves had a reputation for working with more complicated machines and for creating mechanical clocks and magical Toys the only mannish culture which had made great efforts in technology were the Númenóreans who at the peak of their power knew of Steam engines, Explosives, Alchemy and Air-Ships.This knowledge had been teached to them by Sauron who had been the leading Technician of Angband and Utumno and knew the secrets of Morgoth's Mechanical Dragons and other complicated engines of war and forbidden knowledge.From Angband and Utumno also came the limited but efficient technological lore of the Orcs though their techniques were quite primitive and degenerated in comparison to the efforts of their Masters.

Technicians of renown

 * Saruman the White
 * Sauron

Technicians in Roleplaying
Rolemaster has a Technician class as well as some similar professions as Alchemist, Artisan, Constructor, Crafter, Delver, Engineer, Academic, Creator, Professional and Scientist.

A Technician may also be:


 * an Alchemist of Dol Guldur
 * a Black Númenórean Constructor or Architect
 * An Elven Shipwright
 * a Dwarven Toymaker
 * a Hobbit Clockmaker
 * an Engineer of Isengard
 * a Mechanic from Barad-Dûr
 * a Númenórean Technician
 * an Orcish Pitmaster or Breeder