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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7388531" data-attributes="member: 42582">More on the Moria sequence. I am now typing out the text on page 332 of my one-volume edition of LotR:For eight dark hours, not counting two brief halts, they marched on; and they met no danger, and heard nothing, and saw nothing but the faint gleam of the wizard's light, bobbing like a will-o'-the-wisp in front of them. The passage they had chosen wound steadily upwards. As far as they could judge it went in great mounting curves, and as it rose it grew loftier and wider. There were now no openings to other galleries or tunnels on either side, and the floor was level and sound, without pits or cracks. Evidently they had struck what once had been an important road; and they went forward quicker than they had done on their first march.

In this way they advanced some fifteen miles, measured in a direct line east, although they must have actually walked twenty miles or more.That takes less than a minute to read. In the style that [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION] and [MENTION=23751]Maxperson[/MENTION] advocate, it cannot be resolved in a minute at the table. That's sufficient to show that the style in quetsion can't deliver the Moria sequence in play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7388531, member: 42582"] More on the Moria sequence. I am now typing out the text on page 332 of my one-volume edition of LotR: [indent]For eight dark hours, not counting two brief halts, they marched on; and they met no danger, and heard nothing, and saw nothing but the faint gleam of the wizard's light, bobbing like a will-o'-the-wisp in front of them. The passage they had chosen wound steadily upwards. As far as they could judge it went in great mounting curves, and as it rose it grew loftier and wider. There were now no openings to other galleries or tunnels on either side, and the floor was level and sound, without pits or cracks. Evidently they had struck what once had been an important road; and they went forward quicker than they had done on their first march. In this way they advanced some fifteen miles, measured in a direct line east, although they must have actually walked twenty miles or more.[/indent] That takes less than a minute to read. In the style that [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION] and [MENTION=23751]Maxperson[/MENTION] advocate, it cannot be resolved in a minute at the table. That's sufficient to show that the style in quetsion can't deliver the Moria sequence in play. [/QUOTE]

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