XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: billvan@delete.shaw.ca   
      
   In article ,   
    Louis Epstein  wrote:   
      
   > In alt.fan.tolkien John W Kennedy  wrote:   
   > > On 2/11/17 7:13 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:   
   > >> 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).   
   > >   
   > > 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.   
   >   
   If you could tame a cave troll, it could toss a few dwarves with ropes   
   attached.   
   --   
   bill   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)