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The Balrog killed Durin VI, the Dwarf-King of Khazad-dûm, whereafter it was called Durin's Bane by the Dwarves. [T 32] [T 34] Avarice, principally for mithril, drove the dwarves to go too deep and awaken the Balrog. [2] The Dwarves attempted to fight the Balrog, but its power was far too great for them.
In King Gizzard, the Balrog is similarly provoked by technological obtrusion ("You made the atom split / It caused a massive rift / And he came screaming through"). Like Godzilla, it wreaks havoc upon civilization—until the fabled Lord of Lightning appears. The beast is tamed, as it were, by the power of electricity. [17]
A Balrog, a demonic servant of Morgoth whose form is of fire and shadow. In Tolkien's history, Durin's Bane sleeps beneath Khazad-dûm until being disturbed by the Dwarves greedily mining for mithril during the Third Age. In The Rings of Power, Durin's Bane is first awoken during the Second Age, [96] [106] by the actions of King Durin III. A ...
King of the south and one who causes good growth of roots. He is the ruler of the wind. His symbolic weapon is the sword which he carries in his right hand to protect the Dharma and the southern continent. Associated with the color blue. King of the east and god of music. His symbolic weapon is the pipa (stringed instrument). He is harmonious ...
Prince Durin IV confronts King Durin III as the latter opens a large mithril deposit under Khazad-dûm. The Balrog that lives below the mithril mine, awoken by this activity, attacks Durin III. He leaves his Ring of Power to Durin IV and names him the new king before fighting back as the entrance to the cavern collapses.
Night Shift is the first book for which King wrote a foreword. The introduction was written by one of King's favorite authors, John D. MacDonald. MacDonald writes that "Stephen King is a far, far better writer at thirty than I was at thirty, or at forty. I am entitled to hate him a little bit for this."
The episode includes a legend called "The Song of the Roots of Hithaeglir" that Elrond recites to High King Gil-galad. It tells of an Elf warrior who fought a Balrog, an ancient demon from the First Age, over a tree at the top of the Misty Mountains because the tree contained one of the lost Silmarils—powerful
Vega, also known as Balrog (Japanese: バルログ, Hepburn: Barurogu) in Japan, is a fictional character from the Street Fighter fighting game series by Capcom. Vega is a mask-wearing, claw-wielding fighter from Spain who uses a personal fighting style combining Japanese ninjutsu and Spanish bullfighting , earning him the nickname of "Spanish ...