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10-07-2004, 06:38 PM
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Why did the Balrog stay in Moria?
I don't care if he had wings or not, why did he stay in Moria after the Dwarves were driven out? I am quite sure that Sauron would have welcomed him with open arms (one with a hidden knife in it). Did he imagine that he was holding a fortress for Melkor should he return? Did it remind him of Utumno or Thangorobrind? It just seems curious. Even Smaug got out a bit.
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10-08-2004, 05:24 AM
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Elven Warrior
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Well, what he had done for centuries before was hidding before the wrath of the Valar. Imaging that since the War of Wrath he had not have any news from outside, at least not enough to understand that the Valar had turned her eyes away form Middle-Earth a bit. Thus he was smaybe still hidding in that nice little hole after he had "repacified" it.
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10-08-2004, 05:44 AM
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Also, he would have had no particular allegiance to Sauron.
Maybe, since he was hiding from the Valar, he wouldn't want to attract unwanted attention by helping to take over the world.
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10-08-2004, 07:59 AM
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I just assumed he liked it down there, who needs a "boss"!
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10-08-2004, 08:45 AM
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if the fellowship would have taken the way over the mountains, which was not possible of course, they would not have encountered the balrog. the things that happened to Gandalf would not have happened. Saruman would stay the white...
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10-08-2004, 09:03 AM
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Remember too that he had 'just' woken up from a 5400 year nap... so he hangs around for another 1040 years...
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