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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: atlas?
Arguably, Lindil may have hit the answer, if indirectly. The main comings and goings of the dwarves, initially, might have been supposed to be through the west door that communicated with Eregion. The chiefest threat was from Dol Guldur which which Durin's Bridge defended against. So the inconvenience was tolerable. The orcs, likewise, faced their largest perceived threats from the East, (Lorien, etc.) They could expect very little in the way of active threat from depopulated Eregion. They had the secret door and the watcher there anyhow. Hardly a comprehensive answer, just some common-sense rationalization.
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