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ungoliantschilde · 10 months

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Gandalf and Durin’s Bane, by Mattias Bergara

#Mattias Bergara #Gandalf #Durin’s Bane #Balrog #Fellowship of the Ring #Lord of the Rings #JRR Tolkien #Painting #Comics #Art #Illustration

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cultofthewyrm · 1 year

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You Shall Not Pass by Reza Afshar

#fantasy art #lord of the rings #tolkien #gandalf the grey #balrog #durin's bane

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lepetitdragonvert · 5 months

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The Lord of the Rings / Le Seigneur des Anneaux

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thranduilofsmirkwood · 5 months

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#balrog #durins bane #gandalf #khazad dum #thorin #richard armitage #my edits #the hobbit #lee pace #thranduil #lord of the rings #lotr memes #hobbit memes #lotr gifs #bard #bard and thranduil #barduil #luke evans

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theworldsoftolkein · 2 months

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The Mines of Moria - by Gellihana-art

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lotrscenes · 4 months

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This quote, by Gimli, is my absolute favourite quote! 🍺

Quoted directly from: The Two Towers, ch. V, The White Rider, p. 501

Artists Featured: BenJuddArt (Gimli) | EpicSteps Deviantart (Gandalf)

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velvet4510 · 2 months

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#lotr #jrr tolkien #lotr books #lord of the rings #tolkien legendarium #balrog #maiar #durin’s bane #the silmarillion #gandalf #the fellowship of the ring #moria #khazad dûm #durin #lotr theories #lotr poll

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mexican-browser · 2 years

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A Dumb LOTR Exchange

*at the bridge of Khazad-Dûm:*

Gandalf: Illuvatar’s ass on a stick, I wish we had a Balrog-slayer right about now.

Frodo: Why, do you know one? There can’t possibly be that many left—

Gandalf: Glorfindel of Gondolin.

Frodo: Ok, but where could we find—

Gandalf: Back in Rivendell. He was the rocking elven twink with perfect hair next to me and Elrond. Picked you morons up when you had a bad spice trip using the ring. Uppity prick was the one who suggested we just chuck that ring into the ocean like it isn’t just going to pop back up in a few centuries down the line. That’s what happened last time, you know when Isildur—

Aragorn: When Isildur hocked the ring like it was a bag of gummies at Tesco?

Gandalf: Pretty much, yeah.

Frodo: Well, why isn’t the noble Glorfindel here anyway?

Gandalf: Cuz Elrond thought we wouldn’t need him on a stealth mission. Well, surprise, we kinda f****** need him! But noooooo, you guys tooootallyy don’t need a Balrog-slayer. Now it’s my ass on the line, and I didn’t put up with the the idiocies of men and half-wit hobbits for centuries just to go down like this in an abandoned dwarven realm haunted by orcs and cave trolls! Saruman’s out there smoking pot reenacting the first act of The Lorax, Radaghast is talking to the woodland beings like a Disney Princess, and I’m pretty sure the Two Blues are either dead or ghosting me, and I’m here left dealing with a f******* Balrog! Bollocks!

*Silence as the ominous footfalls of certain death approaches*

Gimli: I didn’t understand a word he just said right now.

Legolas: No one can understand you through your own thick accent, sir dwarf, but we manage.

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valoniaart · 10 months

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Gandalf vs Balrog

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aragornsrockcollection · 2 years

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Why didn’t Durin’s Bane seemingly have any ambition of his own, like his fellow Maiar in Sauron or Saruman? Obviously Gandalf, Radagast and the Blue Wizards all had their own thing going on as well, but the Balrog was seemingly content to chill in Moria for thousands of years, for some reason? In theory, would the Balrog have been cognisant enough to seek rehabilitation in Valinor, as Sauron was offered during the First Age?

Omg another question about Maiar! I could speculate on this stuff all day. Also, I am a Tolkien textwall waiting to happen I’m so sorry.

So I’m not sure Durin’s bane would have been offered the same deal as Sauron, and hiding was probably their best bet for not being thrown into the void.

First, Sauron had to pretend to repent to get offered that deal, and there is no reason to believe the Maia later known as Durin’s Bane would have been willing to do that, or that he would be able to pull it off- Sauron being absolutely unmatched when it comes to persuasion is a plot point multiple times, thus ‘Sauron the Deciever.’

Second, even after obtaining mercy Sauron just uses seemingly coming quietly as a smoke screen to escape and do basically the same thing as the Balrog for a while- lay low and lick his wounds.

I do think the Balrog from Moria has more agency than we might think. They’re definitely not a brainless monster, it’s just we only see them for like, a page, and Durin’s Bane was a mystery prior to the Fellowship encountering them.

But I don’t think it’s unfair to say Melkor’s original Maia might be more intrinsically tied to his will than Sauron, who was originally Mairon, Maia of Aule, and defected in the years of the lamps. At the very least, despite how loyal Sauron was (and he was pretty loyal, he gets Numenor to worship Melkor, not him) he did have thousands of years of existence outside of Melkor’s service, which makes him probably more versed in making his own decisions and plans.

Whereas Melkor’s Balrogs were the Ainur who sang along to his theme of discord in the original music, so they are more directly tied to him, never existed as something not his servant, and I doubt had much hope of not being thrown into the void to join their master, even if they went to Valinor to be judged.

SPEAKING OF THE VOID

I do have a theory with no real textual support about what the Balrog was doing down there, and it was not just chilling.

I have mentioned this tinfoil hat theory in another post about the “Nameless things” that “gnaw at the world” under Moria that Gandalf mentions only to be like “but I am not gonna talk about that.”

So the theory is based on the fact that in the second age, the world is flat. So if you were trying to create a pathway back into the world from the void, down is a legitimate direction to go.

The idea that barriers of the world are thin beneath Moria is really backed up by those nameless things gnawing at existence like parasites down there- if this is a weak spot in the walls of the world, either because of those nameless things or perhaps the nameless things are there because it is a weak spot, then I think it’s very suggestive that the last Balrog, one of Morgoth’s original servants, is there.

Trying to make a path back from the void for their master perhaps? And it seems like they might even be making progress if those creatures that are OLDER THAN THE AINUR (Gandalf says they are older than Sauron, and this means they must have dwelt in the void before existence) are slipping through the cracks into Arda.

But then at the end of the second age, the world is made round by Eru Iluvitar. Ostensibly so Valinor cannot be invaded like Numenor is attempting, but why can’t it serve numerous purposes? If a servant of Morgoth is close to creating a means for his return at the bottom of the world, folding existence around that point so that now instead of being at the edge of the world they are at the heart of it, with nowhere to go? That solves that problem. And some void creatures, nameless things, get trapped there too.

After all, the sinking of Numenor does feel pretty harsh. If you can sink a continent you can sink a fleet just as easily, and that spares the innocent. Hell, the Valar barred the shores of Valinor on their own in the first age pretty easily, and Numenor didn’t have a Silmaril to cheat with like Earendil.

But if there were multiple reasons for the rounding of the world and the sectioning off of Valinor, then Numenor could be a victim of just being too close to the point where the world doubled over itself. Two seas become one with a tidal wave that conveniently drowns Sauron.

Note: I do not think Tolkien intended it to be seen as an overreaction, this sort of thing happens in the Bible Old Testament all the time, and he has a very “talk shit get hit” attitude to going against divine power. But it doesn’t sit well with me personally if you want me to see Eru and the Valar as compassionate, which he clearly does intend, so I’m tacking on the idea that the world needed to be round for more than one reason and Numenor was in part collateral damage to preventing the possible return of Morgoth for my own enjoyment of the story. This theory doesn’t need this detail to float, but I like it, this entire thing has no proof anyways, and you can’t stop me.

It would also make sense that we weren’t aware of this, because we are reading about the rounding of the world in the histories of the elves, and this plot to burrow out of the world would have taken place in the dark, with none save Eru the wiser.

So that’s my completely unsubstantiated take on what the Balrog of Moria was up to. They were digging Morgoth an escape tunnel, were foiled, took their frustration out on the dwarves who discovered their operation, then slept with no better options available than to bide their time. They probably had no knowledge of Sauron’s shenanigans, but perhaps awakening to the greater part of Morgoth’s old lieutenant’s power being carried under their nose was enough to stir interest in what was going on in the world.

Certainly if they’d gotten hands on the Ring middle earth would have been screwed, so moral of the story is:

Glorfindel would have been very useful at this point and it’s hilarious that Gandalf shoots down his inclusion in the fellowship and pats the price by having to fight the Balrog himself.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #jirt #lotr #silm #jrr tolkien #nameless things #baseless theories #the Balrog #Durin’s bane #my phone tried to autocorrect that to Durin’s babe 3 times I’m dying #Gandalf #Numenor #the sinking of Numenor #ask me questions at your own risk #but please do I love my dumb theories and will share them at the drop of a hat #melkor #Morgoth #that’s probably enough tags

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dartxo · 5 months

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"Battle of the Maiar"

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"Long time I fell. Long I fell, and he fell with me."

-"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", by J.R.R. Tolkien

Without question or doubt, my favorite scene in The Two Towers is the opening: the flashback to Gandalf's fall at the Bridge of Khazad-dûm, his plunge beyond the furthest depths of the mines of the dwarves and into the very foundations of the earth, all whilst locked in a fierce battle to the death with the Balrog of Morgoth.

I challenge anyone who has read the novel if they say they imagined something near as grand and epic as the duel we saw on the screen. Everything about this sequence is perfect: from the way Gandalf grabs his sword in midair, to the way the chasm lights up as he catches up to the Balrog, giving the impression as if he were falling into a fiery hell; the phenomenal chorus, the enormous underground lake that opens up at the end of their fall that makes the Balrog appear like a little speck of fire in the darkness.

It's a great clash of powers at the heart of the Earth itself, a battle worthy of the legends of the Elder Days. And as far as I'm concerned, the greatest, most epic duel ever put to screen.

#gandalf the grey #gandalf #balrog #durins bane #lord of the rings #two towers #lotr #lotr fanart #lotr art #fandom #screencap redraw #realism #photoshop #art #artists on tumblr #mexican artist #autistic artist #dartxo

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bear-of-mirrors · 11 months

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Sometimes I can’t help but think about the fight between Gandalf and Durin’s Bane. First, the sword Gandalf wields is Glamdring, the sword of Turgon, High King of Gondolin, the doomed final elven city in the First Age. Every single Balrog was a part of the forces that destroyed Gondolin, so to have one of the two swords of High King Turgon be used to slay that last Balrog is some great cosmic level of irony or justice.

Second, I think on how all the Balrogs are the same kind of entities as Sauron, and Gandalf and the other wizards: maiar, angelic beings of power. And with them all being part of the same collective of beings (idk if “species” is the right term for angelic beings), I can never not think about the extra added angst that could potentially exist in the idea that Durin’s Bane and Gandalf may have known each other long before Morgoth corrupted the maiar who would become his Balrogs. Were they friends? Were they rivals? Mere acquaintances? Did Gandalf, back when he was called Olórin, try fiercely to save this friend from the influence of Morgoth, only to fail and see his friend fall into shadow? If so, how much more does that impact how much Gandalf does not want to go to Moria? Does he know Durin’s Bane is this friend he saw fall to darkness? Does he fear or dread facing that friend in combat? And then how must he feel during the actual fight? After he slays that Balrog?

I just think about these things sometimes.

#lord of the rings #the silmarillion #gandalf #balrog #Durin’s bane #Tolkien #tolkien legendarium #jrr tolkien #the fall of gondolin #turgon #glamdring

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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cultofthewyrm · 3 months

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LOTR: Gandalf & Balrog by Coliandre

#lord of the rings #tolkien #gandalf the grey #balrog #durin's bane #you shall not pass #fantasy art

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inahandful-of-dust · 9 months

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002) Dir. Peter Jackson

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thranduilofsmirkwood · 1 year

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LORD OF THE RINGS MEMES

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theworldsoftolkein · 3 months

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#tolkien legendarium #jrr tolkien #the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #middle earth #gandalf #durins bane #khazad dûm #the bridge of khazad dûm #moria #mines of moria

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