A brilliant thought, mhagain! Only two things:
Do the mines of Moria really run?
and
What spell is upon them?
If you have any clarification of this for me and you feel it should be right, please tell me so that it wouldn't seem that I am grudging. Otherwise, it's pretty good guess. You are on the right track. I'd now recommend you to stay on it and focus on these two lines I mentioned. When you find the right way to interpretate them, you solve the riddle.
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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