Posted: March 21, 2000 at 14:55:26: by Dave
: : Of course let's not forget Gimili's own estimate of "perhaps no more than a single chip of rock in a whole anxious day....": "...tap by tap by tap..." Did they necessarily carve the whole thing out? Or did they just expand upon a natural cavern system within the mountain?
Also, I expect that Moria expanded along the lines of the dwarven population increase - and therefore you have several thousand dwarves undertaking an ongoing labour over the centuries....
Dave
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