The Bridge of Khazad-dum

[Mithadan]

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Re: The Bridge of Khazad-dum

The reference to Durin awakening in Gundabad is in HoME 12, which also provides names for the Seven Houses of the Dwarves.

The focus of this discussion is less about how did the orcs follow the Company than about how the dwarves, as a practical matter, got in and out and got their materials in and out on the East side of the mountains. The single file bridge does not seem compatible with a trade based society such as the dwarves. The &quot;service entrance&quot; is proposed keeping dwarven trade in mind. Another possibility is a drawbridge over the chasm (not unlike what the trolls may have done if they had long enough gangways available)which could be raised or destroyed at time of attack on Moria. Such a drawbridge apparently did not exist at the end of the Third Age.

--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>