Because it wasn't really a riddle. They were operating on the assumption that the world was always as dangerous as it is now, and the dwarves and elves hate each other. Because of this, they didn't get that the door wasn't getting at some super secret riddle that only the worthy may know, but simple instructions to say "friend" to go inside.
Was he just in denial about balin being dead? >yeah we lost contact with this colony that took the life of a descendant of durin years ago that we never reciprocated for but I'm sure it's good lol
>so yeah dwarves literally only mine and live underground and they have to uhhhh... trade... for 100% of their food lol
do tolkiddies really think this is good "worldbuilding"?
They developed a symbiotic relationship with men so that they could focus more on mining and crafting. Before that point, they produced their own food, and there's still foodstuffs the dwarves keep as a secret to themselves, such as roots that are somewhat like bread to eat.
I don't understand how, with Balin so long dead that he's been properly buried and interred, and is in a room surrounded by dusty skeletons, that nobody (other than gandalf) knew the mines of moria had been COMPLETELY ethnically cleansed of dwarves. How the frick did Gimly or anybody else not know? It looks like it has been like that for at least a decade.
Why the frick wasn't Gandalf just like >Oh, uh, btw I have bad news Gimli, but Moria has been destroyed, and it is not a good idea because a giant demon lives there now
?
Gandalf knew the land had changed, there was a river there that was decoursed and used to fill the pond with the octopus. He knew something was off and Moria had a danger in hiding. He probably suspected it was a demon, but maybe it was just a bunch of orcs.
The other dwarves thought they would be too busy with mining and reconstructing to visit.
In the book, they absolutely knew that something bad had happened in Moria. Gimli wasn't all ROARING FIRES MALT BEER RIPE MEAT OFF THE BONE and was instead grimly aware that something must have gone terribly wrong in Moria and wanted to check in on Balin. What's more, Moria was once Khazad-dûm, the great homeland of the dwarves and city founded by Durin himself, and Gimli subtly desired to see it regardless of the danger. The Fellowship decided to risk it and go through Moria because the mountain pass had become inaccessible and there were patrols along the other roads, and it looked like they might be getting trailed. Moria was faster than the other roads and would shake their would-be pursuers off their scent.
why was there a giant octopus in a puddle near the mine door
Well he's called the watcher
Why couldn't Legolas solve an elvish riddle?
Because it wasn't really a riddle. They were operating on the assumption that the world was always as dangerous as it is now, and the dwarves and elves hate each other. Because of this, they didn't get that the door wasn't getting at some super secret riddle that only the worthy may know, but simple instructions to say "friend" to go inside.
YEEEESSSSSS
Teleporno.
That’s funny right there
>Just me and Teleporno on our swan boat
he doesn't know
Was he just in denial about balin being dead?
>yeah we lost contact with this colony that took the life of a descendant of durin years ago that we never reciprocated for but I'm sure it's good lol
it was copium
Doesn't look all that big
For you.
Durin's Bane?
In the book he assumes something went wrong and was in Rivendell to get advice about what to do.
>so yeah dwarves literally only mine and live underground and they have to uhhhh... trade... for 100% of their food lol
do tolkiddies really think this is good "worldbuilding"?
They developed a symbiotic relationship with men so that they could focus more on mining and crafting. Before that point, they produced their own food, and there's still foodstuffs the dwarves keep as a secret to themselves, such as roots that are somewhat like bread to eat.
I don't understand how, with Balin so long dead that he's been properly buried and interred, and is in a room surrounded by dusty skeletons, that nobody (other than gandalf) knew the mines of moria had been COMPLETELY ethnically cleansed of dwarves. How the frick did Gimly or anybody else not know? It looks like it has been like that for at least a decade.
Why the frick wasn't Gandalf just like
>Oh, uh, btw I have bad news Gimli, but Moria has been destroyed, and it is not a good idea because a giant demon lives there now
?
Gandalf knew the land had changed, there was a river there that was decoursed and used to fill the pond with the octopus. He knew something was off and Moria had a danger in hiding. He probably suspected it was a demon, but maybe it was just a bunch of orcs.
The other dwarves thought they would be too busy with mining and reconstructing to visit.
In the book, they absolutely knew that something bad had happened in Moria. Gimli wasn't all ROARING FIRES MALT BEER RIPE MEAT OFF THE BONE and was instead grimly aware that something must have gone terribly wrong in Moria and wanted to check in on Balin. What's more, Moria was once Khazad-dûm, the great homeland of the dwarves and city founded by Durin himself, and Gimli subtly desired to see it regardless of the danger. The Fellowship decided to risk it and go through Moria because the mountain pass had become inaccessible and there were patrols along the other roads, and it looked like they might be getting trailed. Moria was faster than the other roads and would shake their would-be pursuers off their scent.
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Gimli son of Gloin?
Gimli son of GROIN!
lmao how did he not know the mines was taken over for 500 years by orcs and a giant demon creature?
let Da-Ling Behrer decide
>brave person who has to bear the danger
>called "daring bearer"
Tolkien was such a fricking hack.
>"Mine"!
Blackreach is so fricking annoying. That ringing red nirnroot and yada yada