Posted: March 21, 2000 at 17:36:04: by Aelmer
: Can any of the mediaevil experts out there give me an estimation of how much rock a person could cut in a single day/weel/year in the pre-industrial era to give some estimate of the number of dwarves and time that would hve been required to build Moria, and also of the number of people the supply chains would require to provide food etc for those cutting the rock. I would guess the effort must have been astronomical, and that no pre-industrial parallel exists in our world.When did the Dwarves begin Moria? For how many years did Dwarves occupy and expand Moria? Questions that form big part in the answer.
If, for example, one dwarf could remove a minimum one cubic yard of material in a day, over the period of a year 365 cubic yards would be removed. Over a hundred years, 3650 cubic yards. Over a thousand years, 36500 cubic yards. If that's the minimum for one Dwarf working slowly,what would hundreds of Dwarves working round the clock in shifts remove in thousand or two thousand years?
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