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   From: le@main.put.com   
      
   After the Third Age,I've given thought to the problems attending the   
   restoration of Khazad-dum after all the damage.   
      
   On the Western side,there's an urgency to demolish the dam that provides   
   the Watcher with its Water,hope it gets killed in the flood,and help its   
   demise if it doesn't.   
      
   On the Eastern,Gandalf destroyed the only path across a 50-foot-wide   
   chasm.To restore access,I'm thinking that it would be necessary to create   
   a piece of joined wood perhaps 140-200 feet long that could be slid along   
   the floor until its perhaps somewhat tapered end crossed omto the far   
   side while its center of gravity remained securely on the near side,so   
   it would not tip into the gap.Staying level,it could then be advanced   
   further.This could then be traversed with the necessities of constructing   
   a new bridge.(Two of these might be used as main beams of a new bridge   
   but I am assuming a stone structure would be preferred).   
      
   Thoughts?   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)