What creature is lurking about in the Khazad-dum? Some Rings of Power fans think ... that the creature was, in fact, the Balrog. In the novel The Lord of the Rings, the Company of the Ring ...

"You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm. Shadow and Flame." Those words, spoken by Saruman the White, are the first mention of the demonic Balrog named Durin's Bane in The Lord of ...