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   From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   On 2017-02-12, Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   > In alt.fan.tolkien John W Kennedy  wrote:   
   ...   
   >> I'm reasonably certain that dwarves are more sophisticaed engineers than   
   >> that. They'd probably use an arrow line to bootstrap a suspension   
   >> bridge.   
   >   
   > When EVERYTHING is built of stone,what can an arrow penetrate?   
   >   
   > A large open space with a bottomless pit across the middle.   
   > Not a simple problem.   
      
   But both sides are accessible by other routes. You don't need an arrow   
   to penetrate anything, you just need it to carry a line across.   
      
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