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Durin's Bane refers to a specific Balrog who was not otherwise named. It would surely have served his master Morgoth during the Third Age and apparently it survived the defeat of Morgoth in the War of Wrath and escaped to hide beneath the Misty Mountains.

For more than five millennia, the Balrog hibernated in its deep hiding place at the roots of the Mountains in Khazad-dûm. It remained undisturbed throughout the Second Age and most of the Third. At long last, the mithril-miners of Dwarf-King Durin VI awoke it. Durin was slain by the creature, at which point it became known as Durin's Bane.

The Dwarves attempted to fight the Balrog, but its power was far too great. They attempted to hold Khazad-dûm at against it, but in the end King Náin and many of the Dwarves were killed, and the survivors were forced to flee. This disaster apparently also reached the Silvan Elves of Lothlórien, many of who also fled the "Nameless Terror" (it was not recognized for a Balrog at the time). They began to call the place Moria, "The Black Pit".

For five hundred years, Moria was left to the Balrog. In around the year 2480 of the Third Age, though, SauronSauron is a fictional character from J. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe. He is the titular Lord of the Rings against whom the protagonists of that series struggle. His name is pronounced in IPA as: sn and in SAMPA as: sAUr\`Qn''. His "birth" occured in 30 began to put his plans for war into effect, and as part of these, he sent OrcOrc or Ork an Old English word ('orc-neas' from Beowulf) for the zombie-like monsters of Grendel's race was revived by J. Tolkien in his Middle-earth legendarium. For the origin of the word and its usage in other fantasy works, see: Orc. In Tolkien's writs and Trolls to the Misty Mountains to bar all of the passes. Some of these creatures came to Moria. It is unclear as to whether Sauron could have controlled the Balrog (they were both MaiarThe Maiar are a fictional race from J. Tolkien's universe, Middle-earth. The Maiar are those spirits which descended to Arda to help the Valar to shape the World. Singular is Maia . There were supposed to be numerous, yet not many were named. Their chiefs) but it is probable that they would have been allied against the "common good". The Balrog did allow the Orcs and trolls to remain in Moria while it dwelt there. We do not know whether Sauron was aware of the Balrog's presence prior to this time.

After the Battle of AzanulbizarTolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Battle of Nanduhirion was the last battle in the War of the Dwarves and Orcs. The Battle of Nanduhirion, also called the Battle of Azanulbizar after the Khuzdul name, was fought in the year 2799 of the Thi, the climactic battle in the War of the Dwarves and Orcs that took place before the eastern gate of Moria in 2799 and was a victory for the dwarves, the victors did not conquer Moria when they saw the Balrog standing in the gate, watching. Despite a failed attempt to recolonise Moria by Balin in 2989, Durin's Bane remained a menace in the ancient kingdom of the Dwarves, whose nature was hidden to the outside world.

In January of 3019, the Fellowship of the Ring travelled through Moria on the way to Mount Doom, and there they encountered Durin's Bane at the Bridge of Khazad-dûm. The Elf Legolas, though he had surely never seen a Balrog, instantly recognized it. More importantly, the Wizard Gandalf was there (perhaps for this very purpose); knowing that it was far more powerful than even the greatest of his companions, he challenged it.

Gandalf, another Maia, was, like Sauron, a being of the same order as the Balrog itself. As they faced each other, Gandalf broke the Bridge and the Balrog fell into the depths, but Gandalf too was drawn into the abyss. But neither could be killed so easily, and Gandalf pursued the creature for eight days until they climbed to the peak of Zirakzigil, where they fought for two days and nights. In the end, the Balrog was cast down and it broke the mountain-side as it fell. Afterwards, Gandalf himself died, but was later sent back to Middle-earth as Gandalf the White, with even greater powers because of his ordeal.

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