Dark and deep, ever deeper, ever darker. the dwarves, in their greed, awoke shadow and flame.9/15/2023 Khazad-dûm was overrun by a Balrog when they dug too deeply for mithril, and Erebor was claimed by a Dragon when word of its immense wealth spread far and wide. It would seem that the fate of the Dwarves in Middle-earth is to fall prey to their greed. Balin and the rest of his kin were slain by Sauron's monsters a few years after returning. Khazad-dûm was only populated by Dwarves once more when Balin, one of Thorin Oakenshield's company in The Hobbit, returned to Moria to reclaim it as they had with Erebor, but it was not to be. Sauron then started sending troops of Orcs and Cave-trolls to populate the halls of Khazad-dûm to make it a stronghold of his own. Though the Dwarves tried to hold on to their home, they were eventually forced to retreat, and Khazad-dûm became the dark and empty shell that would eventually come to be known as Moria, or the Black Pit. The Balrog wrought destruction on Khazad-dûm and killed King Durin IV. The Dwarves dug too deeply in their search for mithril and unearthed a dreadfully evil creature from the depths of the mountain: one of Morgoth's Balrogs, the same one that Gandalf barely managed to defeat in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
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