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Originally posted by Thoran:
As far as a wall around the Volcano... what do you think the Mountains surrounding Mordor are? The Black Gate? Mordor was itself a huge impregnable fortress... except that no fortress is impregnable. You guys have to think bigger, you don't need walls around your volcano when your entire land is a massive fortress.
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The equivilant of putting a Safe in a home.
If Sauron spent so much time and resources investing in constructing the Black Gate and all the outer walls, than why couldn't he just, on a whim, construct a smaller wall surrounding, supposedly, the only way in which to destroy him.
JUST IN CASE.
Hell, a 10 foot brick wall would have been enough to keep Frodo and Senor Samwise from the volcano, come to think of it, any reasonable Hobbit sized lifeform.
Many castles throughout the world construct an inner wall surrounding important parts of the castle, why couldn't the same apply here? Albeit on a much larger scale.
[ 01-13-2005, 03:13 AM: Message edited by: Sigmar ]