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AinurOlorin
Valinor
May 21 2011, 1:25am
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Will Azog and Azanulbizar/Nanduhirion equal a glimpse of The Balrog?
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Just querious. For over 1,000 years, Moria had but one true Lord and Master: A Dark Power, Valarauko, Demon of Might, Lieutenant in the service of the first and greatest Dark Lord, Durin's Bane, by any other name A Balrog of Morgoth and The Balrog of Moria.
We know that Dain beheld him at the great battle of Azanylbizar/Nanduhirion. Indeed, even as he came to the gate of Moria and slew vile Azog The Goblin, he looked beyond the shadow of the gate and beheld that which haunts the deepest nightmares of all Dwarves.
Grey and the face and full of fear Dain came down from the gate and reported that, despite their absolute victory over the goblin horde, they would not enter Moria, though Thrain desprately desired to do so and felt the time had come to reclaim it. "If this is victory," said the dwarves, "our hands are too small to hold it." And Dain said to Thrain his kinsman, "You are the father of our folk. We have fought and bled for you and will again. But we will not enter Kazhad-Dum. YOU, will not enter Khazad-Dum. Only I have seen beyond the shadow of the gate. Beyond the shadow It waits for you still: Durin's Bane. The World must change, and some other power than that of The Dwarves must come through here before Durin's Folk walk again in Moria."
And so it was. Though at least one ill fated attempt can be listed, until a greater Power, The Great Wizard and veiled Ainu Gandalf came to Khazad-Dum, no dwarven colony could thrive in the abode of The Demon.
All this to say what? That when one thinks of Moria, The Balrog inevitably springs to mind. Indeed, it was he who turned it into Moria. His arising towards the end of the 2nd millennia of The Third Age was the most defining and devestating event to befall the dwarves in that age.
Likely the chief instrument of Sauron's wrath against Durin's Folk (it is suggested that Sauron's malice woke Him, and it is not at all unlikely that these two evil Maiar, with their similar histories, past service, and shared and similar spiritual natures, would be capable of some level of psychic communication with one another), but whether or no, He was the great catastrophe of The Dwarves in The Third Age of this Middle Earth. He slew thier great kings, he destroyed the mightiest and most famed of all their great kingdoms, he sent them (not to mention a number of the Silvan Elves of Lothlorien) fleeing into exile, and denied them any hope of homecoming, as Dain stated so well and clearly after the battle of Azanulbizar/Nanduhirion.
So I cannot help but wonder if Peter will give us a glimpse of him, as Dain has a terrifying glimpse of Him, if he does indeed insert some background of that great battle.
It wouldn't be a matter of spoiling the surprise of him in Fellowship, because in Fellowship he is not a surprise to the audience, having already been explicitly alluded to by Saruman, complete with illustration. It would not be a tease with no resolution. . . it is resolved in Fellowship/The Two Towers. So, what are your bets, odds, and suppositions?
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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Will Azog and Azanulbizar/Nanduhirion equal a glimpse of The Balrog?
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AinurOlorin
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May 21 2011, 1:25am
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Excellent
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Nocalas
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May 21 2011, 1:45am
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If Peter choses to include Azanulbizar/Nanduhirion
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Kangi Ska
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May 21 2011, 1:58am
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could they show the balrog getting discovered?
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lurtz2010
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May 21 2011, 3:06am
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Happens long before
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AinurOlorin
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May 21 2011, 5:04am
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Justification
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JWPlatt
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May 21 2011, 7:07am
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Glipses of the Balrog only
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Barrel-Rider
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May 21 2011, 7:47am
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I like that idea!
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Loresilme
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May 21 2011, 8:50pm
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I don't think they'll show him, but possibly allude to him...
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Maiarmike
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May 21 2011, 3:18am
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Well this is why I think the whole Azanulbizar road is a dangerous one to tread
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DrDeath153
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May 21 2011, 10:42am
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I agree.
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Maiarmike
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May 21 2011, 10:56am
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As a conditional, IF Azog and Azanulbizar/Nanduhirion THEN a glimpse of Durin's Bane
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AinurOlorin
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May 21 2011, 9:48pm
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"Bane of Durin"?
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squire
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May 21 2011, 10:23pm
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You should send it that bit of narration to Peter...
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Maiarmike
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May 21 2011, 10:24pm
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Why thank you, kind sir.
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AinurOlorin
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May 21 2011, 10:29pm
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and I agree with you :D
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KAOS82
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May 22 2011, 12:21am
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