![]() ![]() ![]() There was no well-timed rockslide anywhere in the text of The Fellowship of the Ring, but the Balrog is indeed defeated by causing it to fall down a deep dark pit. ![]() The only deviation from the official narrative is the text of the final quest card, which states that “a crumbling pile of boulders… gives you a sudden idea… perhaps a well-timed rockslide could send the Balrog down to the depths below…” ![]() Most of the text on the quest cards is pretty generic, describing either the city of Khazad-Dûm or the actions of the Balrog, so it’s not that much of a stretch to think of this quest as describing the Fellowship’s encounter with the Balrog. So I think I’m only left with one option here: So which Heroes will have the honor of bringing down the beast? For reasons I have discussed before, I find it unlikely that anyone fought the Balrog face to face-and lived to tell about it-before the Fellowship encounters it during the events of the Fellowship of the Ring. ![]()
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