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Old 01-24-2013, 01:12 AM   #29
William Cloud Hicklin
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Presumably this would also explain why they were incorporated into Durin's emblems on the gates of Moria.
From the earliest sketch of the Moria gate, the Stars of Durin were simply clustered regularly around the perimeter of the crown, not in the form of any constellation (although I suppose if one squints just right they might be the Pleiades)


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Wasn't Eregion/Hollin part of the realm of Arnor?
Certainly not at that time: Arnor wouldn't come into being for over 2000 years when the Gate was made!

(Even then, Arnor's southern border at its greatest extent was the Greyflood, so it wouldn't have included Hollin.)
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