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Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar
I don't remember reading anything about magical abilities of Dwarves elsewhere - of what nature would Dwarven magic be?
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What about the dragon-fire-proof shields
Also, I think the building of great places like Orthanc were meant to be mystery, just the way the pyramids were in his time and still are today. If in the context of 4000 years ago, someone could build something 146.6m tall and 231m wide, with an accuracy on each side of 0.1%, then someone in the later periods should be able to do better. I know it didn't actually work like this, and in each stage technology got worse, e.g. Egyptians, Greeks, Romans. Maybe this is where Tolkien got his idea of a faling world from. And these were the equivalent of Atlanteans, which in this sort of theory lapsed onto the Egyptians. So they would definitely have the skill to do things like Orthanc. This was when they came straight form Numenor, so they would be fresh with knowledge. Also, if you think about it, the Egyptians were the first doctors (which says a lot about Gondor, and things, for example, like Athelas). I think Gondor is what it would be like if the Egyptians passed alll their knowledge to the Greeks and Romans, and they improved it, and only then did it start to fail.
Sorry for the messy layout of this postt, but I had too many ideas.
