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Originally Posted by Beregond
Two questions which may be unworthy of advanced discussion:
The second question is less straightforward, and forgive me if it's been hashed out previously:
Why did the Moria Balrog stay under the mountains for so many thousand years? Even after the Dwarves poked it in the dark, it never (from my understanding) took a stroll in the daylight or moonlight to smell the flowers and feel the summer breeze under it's wings/shadows. Wouldn't a creature filled with such malice towards free people actively hunt out some victims instead of hanging out with the Nameless Things playing hide-and-go-seek? Was the Balrog scared? Of the light, of Gandalf, of Galadriel? Or had it lost the initiative when the Valar deleted its master to Eru's trash bin, there to await the great Permanent Removal?
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well, i'd say that perhaps Evil is less crude than you are assuming, and perhaps the Valaraukar are more attuned to the strategy of teamwork than our mortal imaginations are capable of grasping (remember that despite their fana or incarnation, these are ancient Maiar powers coeval with the Istari)......