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From: le@main.put.com
In alt.fan.tolkien Dan C wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 13:38:34 +0000, 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.
>
> Not simple, but not that complicated, either.
>
> And the pit is not bottomless.
The way it's described,it is functionally so.
No mortal could survive trying to reach the bottom,
or find a way back up.
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