Maybe there is a really simple explanation that we haven't thought about. Maybe Tolkien himself had some cave-experience in his own life. Like the spiders... He writes of spiders because he was bitten by a tarantula when he was a child. Just a thought. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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Blessed be the Lord my Strength, Who trained my hands for war and my fingers to fight. Psallm 144:1
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