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Re: Whoa!

I think that 100,000 dwarves, with great light shafts through the mountains, etc. would have some work to do digging out of a landslide.

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Like Dwarves would allow that kind of stonework and construction!

But in the event that some great tumult of the Valar destroyed their entrance, I guess it might take 'em a day or two to deal with the problem.

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putting this up just because

What a long thread! I like the ideas about removable or 'transporter' bridges. I'd always imagined (perhaps due to early exposure to Disney...we hates it my preciousssss!)that the Dwarves (Hi Ho!) would have used some sort of railway with mine trucks (you know, the big metal ones with small wheels like in Indiana Jones) and perhaps some cunning water driven machinery to raise them up levels. Could we yet see a fouth age development of Khazad Dum as a theme park ride?

I've been rereading LoTR recently and the following stroke me as something I haven't noticed and haven't pondered over before:

I'll risk playing a fool, for this thread is nearly three years old, but only now it dawned upon me that there were no need for any carriages (wheeled carts or else) to be hauled across the bridge. They would easily be collected in the First Hall, which is stated below in the same chapter as having huge [broken] doors and than the goods were to be brought across as need be and divided into as many portions as dwarves would wish them to be and than brought across the bridge in no hurry