#hint: if you do please try blaming the international demand for precious metals and the companies that will extract them at any cost

[quixoticanarchy]

The Dwarves at Khazad-dum should not be blamed for delving “too deep” and disturbing the Balrog, given that their intensive mithril mining was serving a largely external demand for mithril, especially from the Elves. Attributing the awakening of the Balrog and the downfall of Khazad-dum to the Dwarves’ greed is a simplistic and racist explanation that obscures the market pressures to which they were subjected in order to meet Elvish demands for the rare precious metal that they alone had access to. In this essay i will

#would you blame like. gold mining communities when there's mercury contamination in the water?? #hint: if you do please try blaming the international demand for precious metals and the companies that will extract them at any cost #would people (or dwarves) do some mining anyway without this demand? probably #but until their own destruction? i dont think so #tolkien #lord of the rings #khazad dum #mithril #mining #resource extraction #lotr #skravler