I notice that someone else got in there first, which will teach me to be so long-winded. I hope that you'll forgive my posting my answer anyway, since I quite liked it.
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In Tolkien's only recorded foray into Lovecraftian fan-fiction, their excavations were guided by Nyarlathotep into awakening Cthulhu himself. Initially the Old One helped the Dwarves of Moria (albeit unintentionally) by eating the Balrog, whose protection racket was bleeding their Mithril stocks dry; but ultimately he will destroy the world. Until then, as the Watcher in the Water, he sleeps and waits for some fool to wake him.
Later study of the Book of Mazarbul revealed the telling couplet
Quote:
That is not dead which can eternal lie
And in strange aeons even death may die.
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Either that or it was Elvis. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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"Sharkey" was a semi-mythical being, who was rumoured to lurk in the background of any conversation, occasionally removing the impolite and foolish from existence.
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What sort of dwelling is favoured by Ents?
[ October 28, 2002: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]