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| | The Barrow-Downs |
 | | When the company of the Ring-bearer, led by Gandalf, was about to cross the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm in their underground journey through Moria, they had to recognize, to their terror, what the orcs they had met before meant with their cries of 'fire': the Balrog, Dúrin's Bane, had again risen. |
 | | The wizard hew the bridge under him asunder with a thrust of his staff, warded off the blows of the Balrog's blade of leaping fire and fell to the deepest ground at the very bones of the earth, all the while clutching with the Balrog. |
 | | It stood in the middle of the bridge, as a giant creature of fire and shadow, with a mane of flames, a many-thonged whip, and a vast shadow about it, like its wings 'spread from wall to wall'. |
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