![]() While Tolkien’s writing claims the Balrogs were out of commission during the Second Age, we have reason to suspect the Balrog we see in the final minutes of Episode 7 is, in fact, Durin’s Bane. The Balrog shown at the end of Episode 7 of The Rings of Power looks way too much like Durin’s Bane to be a coincidence. Was that Durin’s Bane in The Rings of Power? While Gandalf defeats Durin’s Bane, he loses the body he had as Gandalf the Grey and is resurrected as Gandalf the White. In the end, both fell from the collapsing Bridge of Khazad-dûm. The confrontation between Gandalf and the Balrog that followed inspired one of The Fellowship of the Ring’s most iconic scenes.ĭurin’s Bane and Gandalf attack each other with various spells and mystical weapons. The Balrog went back to sleep after its rampage but was awoken nearly 1000 years after by the Fellowship of the Ring, which was traveling through Moria on their quest to destroy the One Ring. The bloodshed that followed led the Dwarves to flee Khazad-dûm and abandon their mithril ventures. The first time Durin’s Bane was disturbed was when the Dwarves woke it while greedily mining for more mithril. Discoveryĭurin’s Bane is the only known Balrog to have slept beneath the Misty Mountains (aka, the mines of Moriah, aka, the Dwarven kingdom of Khazad-dûm) where most of the action between Elrond and Durin has taken place. Durin’s Bane faces off with Gandalf in one of the most memorable scenes from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy. ![]()
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