Fictional Disasters

Structured the same way as a real MineArchive disaster record — cause, what happened, aftermath — but sourced to canon rather than to an inquiry or an Inspector's Report. See Fictional for how these are kept separate from the real archive.

Middle-earth

• Durin's Bane
  T.A. 1980 · Other · 2 fatalities
  Two kings of Khazad-dum died in quick succession over the same vein of mithril, and the response was to abandon the richest Dwarf-realm in Middle-earth rather than go back down after it
• The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
  15 January T.A. 3019 · Fire · 1 fatality
  Cinema's most quoted line from this scene — 'You shall not pass!' — is not what the book actually says; Tolkien's Gandalf says 'You cannot pass', twice