Sewers/toilets in middle earth? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Morthoron · 09-01-2012, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Faramir Jones

You got me thinking that those Orcs and Men in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields who were driven into the Anduin suffered a particularly smelly fate...

The Men of Gondor, flushed with pride, drove the Orcs from their trenches.

Pervinca Took · 09-01-2012, 06:33 AM

I always thought the clearest reference to such things in the book was Sam's "It smells like ... well, I wouldn't like to say. Some beastly hole of the orcs, I'll reckon, with a hundred years of their filth in it."

Juicy-Sweet · 12-19-2012, 09:44 PM

I imagine the Elves being quite adverse to the smell of faeces, just doesnt seem right for them, so they must have invented plumbing as one of the first things.

For the humans, I imagine them being like "real humans" - Gondor probably quite clean, owing to the Elven influence.

I imagine Rohan and Bree as quite filthy, like historic Medieval cities.

The plumbing of Barad-Dur YEECH no wonder it was called the Black Tower

09-01-2012, 06:33 AM	#2
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	I always thought the clearest reference to such things in the book was Sam's "It smells like ... well, I wouldn't like to say. Some beastly hole of the orcs, I'll reckon, with a hundred years of their filth in it." __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

12-19-2012, 09:44 PM	#3
Juicy-Sweet Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 49	I imagine the Elves being quite adverse to the smell of faeces, just doesnt seem right for them, so they must have invented plumbing as one of the first things. For the humans, I imagine them being like "real humans" - Gondor probably quite clean, owing to the Elven influence. I imagine Rohan and Bree as quite filthy, like historic Medieval cities. The plumbing of Barad-Dur YEECH no wonder it was called the Black Tower