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Originally Posted by Inziladun
It really doesn't look very pratical. Using the Celduin to get the stuff to the Elvenking's halls would have meant going upstream.
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Most trade - ancient and present - includes getting the goods both downstream and upstream (think of the Nile, Eufrat, Mekong, Rhein, Donau, Volga, Mississippi) - not to talk of crossing oceans. The ancients already knew how to go upstream... It took more labour, but if the commodity was priced high enough that should have not been a problem (like they said in the USSR to philosopher Ludvig Wittgenstein acquiring a place for him there as a worker: "the one thing we're not in short supply here is unskilled labour...").
