Very satisfying, Dwim, and I love, love, love the architectural details, the engines, and the final destruction by the Balrog, all unfolding poetically.

One pedantic quibble though. Statistics and statics are two different beasts. The latter concerns the mechanics of torque and force, aptly alluded to in your story.

~ Pandë the Pedant, who had a stint as an architecture major as an undergrad and took a statics and dynamics class (I prefer p. chem. any day of the week).