**Spoiler Warning** Rings of Power S1E7 - "The Eye"

[Tar Elenion]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

I thought that the Rules were that Amazon could make up anything they liked to fill in the blank spaces, but couldn't contradict the published lore? Because we know, as an in-universe fact, that the Balrog wasn't awakened until TA 1980, almost 2000 years after this tale.

Can just use the idiot showrunners favorite:
'Where did Tolkien say it did not happen?