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Felagund
Rohan
Feb 7 2013, 1:34pm
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An interesting topic Mixel, thanks for posting. The fact that Mount Gundabad is described as the 'goblin capital' in III.2941, at the time of the Battle of the Five Armies, underscores your point. If the Dwarven host slaughtered its way through every orc-stronghold it could find during the War of the Dwarves and Orcs (III.2793-2799), then this must have included Mount Gundabad. This was the ancient awakening place of Durin the Deathless, and was presumably sacred to the Longbeards at the very least, if not all Dwarves. That Thráin and Thorin don't seem to have contemplated moving to the newly-cleansed Gundabad in III.2799 strongly suggests (as has been raised in this thread) that the Longbeards simply didn't have the population to recolonise anywhere that might be remotely contentious. That certainly ruled out Moria, Erebor and Ered Mithrin, and even, apparently, Mount Gundabad - despite the fact that the latter was at least temporarily free of orcs.
Welcome to the Mordorfone network, where we put the 'hai' back into Uruk
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Dwarves' lost opportunity
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Mixel
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Feb 1 2013, 11:52pm
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Which war do you mean?
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Otaku-sempai
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Feb 2 2013, 9:00pm
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That's my guess too...
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noWizardme
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Feb 3 2013, 5:04pm
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I mean War of Dwarves and Orcs
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Mixel
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Feb 3 2013, 5:25pm
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Yeah, that did happen.
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Escapist
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Feb 3 2013, 5:31pm
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Much about the dwarves is unknown, I think.
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Escapist
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Feb 3 2013, 5:07pm
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The war was incredibly vicious
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PhantomS
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Feb 3 2013, 11:56pm
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Mount Gundabad
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Felagund
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Feb 7 2013, 1:34pm
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Good ol' Gundabad
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PhantomS
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Feb 7 2013, 3:30pm
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Gundabad, and "Of Dwarves & Men"
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Felagund
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Feb 17 2013, 11:32am
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That's very informative
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CuriousG
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Feb 17 2013, 2:34pm
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Something fishy about the whole Moria reconquest project?
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noWizardme
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Feb 20 2013, 10:10pm
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I'm never sure what to read into that either
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CuriousG
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Feb 20 2013, 10:42pm
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"Wormbeard" at work...
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noWizardme
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Feb 21 2013, 10:01pm
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Moria
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Cirashala
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Feb 25 2013, 11:13pm
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