Cités souterraines

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Faut dire avec les traductions de mer** qu'on, regardez ce que peut devenir un texte (extrait du Silmarillion de 77 qui plus est...) :

La plus grande cité des Nains était Khazad-dûm, ou Dwarrowdelf, ou encore Hadhodond en langage elfe; elle reçut plus tard le nom de Moria quand la nuit l'eut recouverte. Mais cette ville était au-delà des grandes plaines d'Eriador, loin dans les Montagnes de Brume, et les Eldar n'en connurent qu'un nom, une rumeur, d'après ce que disaient les Nains des Montagnes Bleues.

Greatest of all the mansions of the Dwarves was Khazâd-dûm, the Dwarrowdelf, Hadhodrond in the Elvish tongue, that was afterwards in the days of its darkness called Moria; but it was far off in the Mountains of Mist beyond the wide leagues of Eriador, and to the Eldar came but as a name and a rumour from the words of the Dwarves of the Blue Mountains.

Ceci dit, pour ce qui est des cités naines :

It came to pass during the second age of the captivity of Melkor that Dwarves came over the Blue Mountains of Ered Luin into Beleriand. Themselves they named Khazâd, but the Sindar called them Naugrim, the Stunted People, and Gonnhirrim, Masters of Stone. Far to the east were the most ancient dwellings of the Naugrim, but they had delved for themselves great halls and mansions, after the manner of their kind, in the eastern side of Ered Luin; and those cities were named in their own tongue Gabilgathol and Tumunzahar.
Silmarillion

`These are not holes,' said Gimli. `This is the great realm and city of the Dwarrowdelf. And of old it was not darksome, but full of light and splendour, as is still remembered in our songs.'
The Lord of the Rings

Pour ce qui est de Menegroth, nargothrond et le palais de Thranduil, c'est le seul endroit que j'ai trouvé avec le terme de cité employé (pour le moment, j'ai pas beaucoup cherché non plus ^^), sinon c'est toujours forteresse,...

Nagothrond (Sindarin 'Narog-fortress, city in underground caves') [...].
A Reader's Companion

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