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   From: youmustbejoking@lan.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:13:42 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Whether a mortal could reach the bottom, or come back up, is completely   
   irrelevant to this discussion.  Stick to the point, which was how to cross   
   the large gap.  Whether it's bottomless or not has nothing to do with the   
   engineering task of getting over it.   
      
      
      
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