(TFT) Thoughts on Moria

[Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:24, David Miller wrote:
> As for the mines of Moria the dwarves took advantage of the myriad 
> natural caves and tunnels that riddled the Misty Mountains.... 
> . They also 
> made use of the natural tunnels and caves and made them into finished 
> passageways and halls. There was probably plenty of deep places to dump 
> what material they dug out. For example they never sounded the great 
> chasm over which they built Durin's Bridge.
> 
> --David O. Miller

  Huge holes can not exist underground.  Given
time the rocks will flow and fill them in, or
fracture and cave in.

  I always looked on this as an example of 
"Tolkien is no Scientist".

  I guess I am just saying that I am a bit 
more bothered by "huge hollows underground"
than most people would be.

  Warm regards, Rick.
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