Of the many monsters that appeared in J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s film adaptations, one of the mightiest and most terrifying was the Balrog that lurked deep beneath the Mines of ...

Season 1 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power promised a balrog, and while the tragic sacrifice of King Durin in the mithril-rich depths beneath Khazad-dûm might have been brief, it was ...

"You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm. Shadow and Flame." Those words, spoken by Saruman the White, are the first mention of the demonic Balrog named Durin's Bane in The Lord of the ...

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For those of us who have hefty book collections, we know a book nook is often needed to keep our precious tomes from falling over. But why have any old book nook, when you can have one straight from ...