The Westgate Pool and the Watcher in the Water - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

elfling · 10-21-2002, 04:54 PM

I think the orcs would have flooded the area themselves not the dwarves, to block them in as others have said. I also beleive the Watcher to be like the Balrog but not the Balrog. just something ancient and evil that lived deep in the mines or below them and appeared after the flooding, as a sentry. Of course the Dwarves may have known of the Watcher from earlier in their history of Moria but it played a new role in the last battle with the orcs. I feel it was on no side inparticular just an evil being.

10-21-2002, 04:54 PM	#7
elfling Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: asheville,nc Posts: 86	I think the orcs would have flooded the area themselves not the dwarves, to block them in as others have said. I also beleive the Watcher to be like the Balrog but not the Balrog. just something ancient and evil that lived deep in the mines or below them and appeared after the flooding, as a sentry. Of course the Dwarves may have known of the Watcher from earlier in their history of Moria but it played a new role in the last battle with the orcs. I feel it was on no side inparticular just an evil being. __________________ And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night...All shall love me and despair!