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This is due both to Tolkien's changing conception of Balrogs, and to the imprecise but suggestive and possibly figurative description of the Balrog that confronted Gandalf. [T 14] The Balrog of Moria used a flaming sword ("From out of the shadow a red sword leapt flaming") and a many-thonged whip that "whined and cracked" in its battle with ...
In its basic form, it is a game for one to five players, each choosing one of the five wizards to represent themselves. A turn in the game consists of one player's wandering around Middle-earth with the help of famous characters of Middle-earth, trying to gather influence and power to aid in the battle against The Dark Lord, while another player tries to harass, and ultimately kill his ...
Rules, scenarios, and new profiles for armies involved in the war with Arnor and Angmar Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game Rules Manual: Rulebook 2024 Replaces the 2018 and 2022 rulebooks with a completely revised ruleset. Included within the starter set The War of the Rohirrim - Battle for Edoras. Armies of The Lord of the Rings: Supplement 2024
After finding the Dwarves of Moria dead, the Fellowship is attacked by Orcs and a cave troll. They hold them off but are confronted by Durin's Bane: a Balrog residing within the mines. While the others escape, Gandalf fends off the Balrog and casts it into a vast chasm, but the Balrog drags Gandalf down into the darkness with him.
The name "Moria" means "the Black Chasm" or "the Black Pit", from Sindarin mor, "dark, black" and iâ, "void, abyss". [T 1] The element mor had the sense "sinister, evil", especially by association with infamous names such as Morgoth and Mordor; indeed Moria itself had an evil reputation by the times in which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set.
While crossing the Misty Mountains through the tunnels of Moria, Pippin decides to drop a stone down a deep hole. It seems to waken something far below, which signals by tapping with a hammer; Gandalf calls Pippin a "fool of a Took". The Company is pursued by dangerous enemies including Orcs, Trolls, and a Balrog.
They participated in the wars of the First Age of Middle-earth but are mostly destroyed during the War of Wrath which ended the Age. [T 5] [T 6] By the Third Age, the only remaining Balrog was "Durin's Bane," the Balrog of Moria, killed by Gandalf. [T 7]
"Hell and the city: Tolkien and the traditions of Western literature" looks at the novel's debt to literary tradition. The Fellowship's journey through Moria is likened to a descent into Hell, part of a hero's monomyth, while Gandalf's struggle with the Balrog echoes the hero "overcoming a monster of 'the deep'". Frodo's journey to Mordor, too ...