Why didn't they use the same pass?

[Arwen Imladris]

Would it really have taken them longer to go the same way as the dwarves? On the map it looked about the same lenghth.

p.s. did anyone note thet in the hobbit when bilbo meets up with thorin & co after escaping gandalf says: they will double their guard after that!! so with all this added up maybe moria was safer after all.

Yes, but that was 50 years ago, they might have been a little more relaxed by now.

What happened to reason 4?

Yes, we can all count here! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] oh well, I wouldn't worry about. We all know what lathspell ment.