

Glory of Moria passed, and its people were destroyed or fled far away. Was slain by it, and the year after Náin I, his son and then the Since the coming of the Host of the West: a Balrog of Morgoth. Thus they roused from sleep a thing of terror that, flyingįrom Thangorodrim, had lain hidden at the foundations of the earth Mithril, the metal beyond price that was becoming yearly ever harder Theĭwarves delved deep at that time, seeking beneath Barazinbar for Of Morgoth, was then again growing in the world, though the Shadow in It came to pass that in the middle of the Third Age Durin was again Or, in Tolkien's own words, in Appendix A to The Lord of the Rings: " The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. Saruman refers to the first awakening, when in the film he tells Gandalf: Durin's Bane remained a menace in the ancient kingdom of Gate and declared that Moria itself remained beyond their power toĬonquer.

Moria], Dáin II Ironfoot felt the terror of the Balrog at the In TA 2799 [around 200 years before the fellowship entered The Balrog slew Durin, and was thereafter known as Durin's Bane.īalrog, but its power was far too great and the survivors wereįor seven hundred years, Moria was left to the Of Dwarf-King Durin VI awoke it when they mined too deeply and too Throughout the Second Age and most of the Third Age, until the miners Lay dormant for more than five thousand years at the roots of the mountain Barazinbar beneath the dwarf According to the lore of the books, this Balrog (one of many), known as Durin's Bane,
