• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Gandalf woke the Balrog.

    It’s an abandoned mine, things are going to fall and make noise from time to time and they’re probably used to it.
    You know what doesn’t happen all the time in a mine?
    People don’t yell “Fool of a Took!” In the language of your sworn enemy at the top of their lungs.

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      15 days ago

      Technically it’s not how it happened in the book IIRC. Nobody was throwing corpses into that well. Just stones. And it wasn’t in the hall of Mazarbul. It was in some guards’ room near the gate.

      Their entry into Moria, bothering the nice guy guarding it, was enough to wake the Balrog.