Timeline for Was Durin's Bane a servant of Sauron?
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| Aug 2, 2022 at 19:38 | comment | added | Mark Olson | The Balrog was not imprisoned there. In the appending "About Durin's Folk" Tolkien writes "Thus they roused from sleep a thing of terror that, flying from Thangorodrim, had lain hidden at the foundations of the earth since the coming of the Host of the West: a Balrog of Morgoth." The Balrog had run and hidden itself until roused 5000 years later. | |
| Aug 29, 2019 at 17:14 | comment | added | chepner | The prison comment is intriguing; the Misty Mountains are far enough from Beleriand that an accidental imprisonment due to the tumultuous War of Wrath seems unlikely, and equally unlikely is the idea that the Valar would imprison any captured Balrogs in Middle-earth rather than back in Aman. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 23:58 | comment | added | user8719 | @JerrySchirmer - no, it didn't. Read your Tale of Years and Durins Folk - the Balrog was inactive between the Breaking of Thangorodrim and TA 1980 (and the Dwarves of Moria were certainly not wiped out in the Second Age). | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 20:28 | comment | added | Zo the Relativist | @DarthSatan: The Balrog led the army that wiped out the dwarves of Moria and Celebrimor's elves in the second age. Presumably, it went to sleep sometime following the fall of Sauron at the end of the Second Age. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 18:24 | comment | added | turinsbane | @Zibbobz in unfinished tales the hunt for the ring it notes that Gollum was in great peril of discovery by the servants of Sauron that lurked in Moria | |
| Aug 15, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | Zibbobz | @turinsbane Are you sure that Sauron sent those Orcs? Orcs tend to obey the strongest force they can find. Who's to say those weren't the beginnings of the Balrog's own army? | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 10:22 | vote | accept | turinsbane | ||
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| Aug 4, 2014 at 8:45 | comment | added | user8719 | @turinsbane - "in the second age he united all Morgoths remaining servants" - the Balrog didn't awake until Third Age 1980. | |
| Aug 4, 2014 at 8:30 | comment | added | turinsbane | All this is true but im pretty sure that the orcs in Moria were sent there by Sauron & the balrog allowed them to stay unlike the dwarves plus in the simarillion it says in the second age he united all Morgoths remaining servants on & under the ground under his government | |
| Aug 4, 2014 at 7:13 | history | answered | user8719 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |