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Kuruharan · 04-13-2002, 01:39 PM

I agree. The Dwarves were totally gyped in LOTR. Tolkien should have had the Fellowship make a trip to the Lonely Mountain just so we could visit them!

Well, maybe not. But the Dwarves were certainly under-represented in LOTR.

Might have been nice to actually see inside a dwarf-realm that was still fully functional. Even in the Hobbit, we don't see Erebor in working order, it's still a wreck and ruin. In FOTR Khazad-dum was certainly not in working order. Come to think of it, I don't think that anywhere are
we shown inside a dwarf kingdom when it is still in existance. We're only shown inside after it's been ruined and abandoned for a couple of centuries.

04-13-2002, 01:39 PM	#3
Kuruharan Regal Dwarven Shade Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold Posts: 3,593	I agree. The Dwarves were totally gyped in LOTR. Tolkien should have had the Fellowship make a trip to the Lonely Mountain just so we could visit them! Well, maybe not. But the Dwarves were certainly under-represented in LOTR. Might have been nice to actually see inside a dwarf-realm that was still fully functional. Even in the Hobbit, we don't see Erebor in working order, it's still a wreck and ruin. In FOTR Khazad-dum was certainly not in working order. Come to think of it, I don't think that anywhere are we shown inside a dwarf kingdom when it is still in existance. We're only shown inside after it's been ruined and abandoned for a couple of centuries. __________________ ...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...

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