The Bridge of Khazad-dum

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: The Bridge of Khazad-dum

Inward-retreating is a very finite and dangerous idea. Dwarves were not stupid. No matter how much they loved their caverns and disliked the wide open skies, they understood very well that to stand in a corner left nowhere to run but out... unless they wanted to die. It didn't work for Morgoth, the most powerful being ever to menace Middle-Earth, so why would the Dwarves lock themselves in a hole??

Every creature knows by instinct to have a path of retreat... and a path of attack. For the Dwarves of Moria to limit themselves to a single-file egress (either defensive OR offensive) would be the biggest (and strangest) blunder in Middle-Earth military history.

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