The Excavation of the Walls of Khazad-dûm, part 2.
Khazad-dûm, long lost. Balin went there with an expedition, to reclaim it for the Dwarves. No words have been heard from Balin and his expedition in a long time. And now, it is finally decided to send a new expedition there. I, Dhordur Stonebeard, Troll Slayer, son of Ghord Stonebeard is joining this new expedition. I am hopeful of it, this will succeed, we will find Balin or what that remains of his expedition and reclaim Khazad-dûm for the Dwarves!
Long Time
It have one a little over two weeks since the Dwarves had arrived and set up camp at the ruins of Echad Dunann. More time then it was counted for as when they managed to work up the new road up to the Door of Durin, no door was to be found, only rubble where the door should have been. Cause of that they had to dig it out to be able to enter. And that took a whole week more than expected. The Elves had tried at several occasions to change the mind of the Dwarves, however they were not able to.
Now their work soon were finished, but they had suffered a few Warg attacks during the week. Dhordur had been ordered to take head of the guard and giving out orders to the guard.
''This takes too long, if my son is in there.. If... I need to get in there as fast as possible to find him. And the Wargs had got even more harder in their ''attacks'''. And these darn pointy-ears still keeps arguing with us. I still wonder what could have made the Door of Durin to collapse like that, into rubble, rubble!
Our crafts is sturdier than that, might have been a troll? Bah, if it were I will slay it, could use some fun now.
Another thing that have grown heavy on my mind now is that of something I remember from my childhood. My father tried to teach me about my families history. I was a bit bored of it back then in my young days actually, some of it I did learn but some I forgot. Now there is this particular thing I have started to remember vaguely.
It is something about our family and Khazad-dûm, I am sure of that.'' - out take from the diary ''Expedition of Khazad-dûm'' by Dhordur Stonebeard, Troll Slayer.
Entering
It was time, at nightfall on the third day of the third week they managed to clear the rubble and the entrance was open again. The Dwarves packed their things, it was a rather cloudy night, the moonlight was not to be seen. They brought their things up to the entrance, there they stood for a while, just looking at the black hole making the entrance to the long lost Khazad-dûm. No one of them could believe that it was finally time for them to enterAs soon as they were going to enter, the moonlight showed it self from the clouds and shined over the lake and the entrance. Some of them went in with some crates and then just as Dhordur was going to walk in some big creature emerged from the depths of the lake, using it's long arms or tentacles to attack the Dwarves.
It took them a while, some of the Dwarves were told to run into Khazad-dûm. Just before the creature went into the depths of the lake again it dragged one of the Dwarves with it, it went too fast so no one could see who got pulled. A few others had been killed.
''By my beard, we are still unsure on what kind of creature that was. It just came up from the lake, probably some water living being, it had large arms that it used to attack us. We managed to drive it back into the depths but it dragged one of us with it.
We also lost four Dwarves, Mahal is greeting them now. May he watch over us now as we enter Khazad-dûm. I can not believe it myself, still worried what that creature was and excited about getting into Khazad-dûm. My son, I might be able to find him now.'' - out take from the diary ''Expedition of Khazad-dûm'' by Dhordur Stonebeard, Troll Slayer.
The Dwarves took the bodies with them as they, after a long journey with dangers, finally entered Khazad-dûm...
