Such a shame that stuff was cut: sounds like a few unanswered questions may have been answered! I should fire up the Developers' Cut and see if that enables any more exploration options of vestigial bits.
Aleroth is certainly very much bigger by the time of ED, not to mention the slightly more interesting topology of the area. I did wonder about its sudden expansion but I guess that's what cities often do... I played ED and DD in the reverse order so I was equally surprised to find out how much smaller Aleroth was just a few decades prior!
It's a pity that site has gone: the text is still on archive.org but most of the images aren't, it seems.
