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The Front Gate is Sealed

lionoferebor
Rohan

Mar 28 2015, 4:17pm

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I'm having a Hobbit marathon with my nine year old. He asked a rather interesting question - one I had never considered. When Smaug attacks Erebor he breaks through the front gate, but later we learn the front gates were sealed sometime after the attack. Who sealed the front gates? Was it the Dwarves? The Dale who migrated to Esgaroth? Or could Smaug possibly have sealed himself in?


Smaug the iron
Gondor

Mar 28 2015, 4:24pm

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I don´t think the dwarves or the men from dale could do it wen Smaug is there so it has to be Smaug.


Riven Delve
Tol Eressea


Mar 28 2015, 7:26pm

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I think it was Smaug. [In reply to] Can't Post

I took "sealed" to mean "blocked"--much less like the hermetically sealed of modern parlance. Blocking up an entrance/exit was something well within his powers (see the Western Guard Room) and would be a great way to keep burglars and Dwarf princes and such out. (But perhaps not envoys of Sauron? Angelic)


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Otaku-sempai
Immortal


Mar 28 2015, 7:40pm

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Smaug occupied the Mountain for close to 150 years (and over 171 years in Tolkien's canon). Even a dragon has to go out for dinner at least once every few decades or so; Smaug would have had to unblock the gate and reseal it to feed.

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