nicht hätten abhalten dürfen

[lionel15]

I am trying to translate the following from German into English:

Wir haben nichts getan, um euch zu versorgen, wovon uns alle Orks von Moria nicht hätten abhalten dürfen

I think it may be this:

We have done nothing to ease you, from which all the Orks of Moria should have not have stopped us.

I cannot see a direct translation of nicht hätten dürfen

SECHSTES KAPITEL - ZWEITES BUCH

 

[Schimmelreiter]

Wir haben nichts getan, um euch zu versorgen, wovon uns alle Orks von Moria nicht hätten abhalten dürfen

We didn't do anything to support you, which we shouldn't have let all the Orks of Moria prevent us from doing.



More detailed analysis:

wovon uns alle Orks von Moria nicht hätten abhalten dürfen/from which all the Orks of Moria wouldn't have been allowed to prevent us

Implied is the addition: hadn't it been we that allowed them to (prevent us from supporting you)/hadn't it been we that let them (prevent us from supporting you)


My rendition (which we shouldn't have let all the Orks of Moria prevent us from doing)
is the result of joining together the two notions of
from which all the Orks of Moria wouldn't have been allowed to prevent us
and
hadn't it been we that let them (prevent us from supporting you)

 

[perpend]

I understand this: We didn't do anything to provide for you, which all the Orks in Moria shouldn't have kept us from doing.

I think that's similar to one of SR's renderings.

 

[Schimmelreiter]

which all the Orks in Moria shouldn't have kept us from doing

is indeed what it boils down to. I shrank from rendering

nicht hätten abhalten dürfen

as

shouldn't have kept us from doing

so I rendered
their not being allowed
as
our not allowing/letting them
in an effort to preserve the idea of dürfen/to be allowed.