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Originally Posted by Cirdan
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"Nonetheless the Valar did not discover all the mighty vaults and caverns hidden with deceit far under the fortresses of Angband and Utumno. Many evil things still lingered there, and others were dispersed and fled into the dark and roamed into the waste places of the world awaiting a more evil hour..."
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Could it be possible that this Balrog was a refugee from that conflict, taking flight and hiding under the Misty Mountains before even the Dwarves founded Moria? |
No– at least not if we go by the
Silmarillion– Morgoth "reared the threefold peaks of Thangorodrim" above Angband only
after his return to Middle-earth.