4th Age Balrogs?

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

Other than Mount Doom?

Maybe that's the real reason Sauron moved to Mordor originally- he found a Balrog. That's what he's hiding in Mordor, not the thousands of orcs.

You'd have thought that the Balrog would have made at least one visit to Osgiliath or Minas Tirith in all of those years.

And Galin, if I remember my HoME, at first Tolkien had so many Balrogs attacking Gondolin that Ecthelion's deed at the Fountain would have been less noteworthy, as you couldn't draw your sword without hitting three or four Balrogs.