Falin had worked for hours, but he did not tire. Powered by excitement and curiosity, he had nearly seperated a large block from the rest of the door, large enough to alloow a dwarf to walk through or a human to crawl through.
Hammering at the deep groove that seperated the block from the rest of the door, his chisel suddenly fell through. He reached to take another, but saw something strange. There was a light coming out of the hole. Furiously, he chiseled at the grooves, breaking each and every one of them through. Exhausted though he was, he was propelled by a sense of curiosity and wonder. Attaching ropes to handles he had cut into the stone, he handed their ends to the others.
Dwarves and Men pulled with all of their might, and the loose, section of rock groaned, cracked, and fell outward with a great crash.
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