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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   Louis Epstein  spoke these staves:   
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   > In alt.fan.tolkien Julian Bradfield  wrote:   
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   Restoring the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm   
      
   >> But both sides are accessible by other routes.   
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   > Accessible from opposite sides of a mountain range.   
   > Not the best circumstances for coordinating work parties.   
      
   It is, in my view, fairly obvious that there are other routes. The Orcs   
   who were "trapped" on the western side of the chasm were not in actual   
   fact trapped in Moria -- they got out within a few hours of the party   
   leaving Moria, suggesting that there were other exits. More hidden and   
   probably narrow -- a kind of posterns, quite likely -- but certainly it   
   would be possible for a group of Dwarves to reach the other side of the   
   chasm within a few hours (unless, of course, they would still have to   
   fight their way through).   
      
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