Hard to say, given it’s a corrupted Maiar and mostly a creature of spirit as a result.
It’s kind of important to remember that the setting literally becomes “material” as the Ages progress, the world only becomes a globe after the drowning of Numenor.
Did it find a secret tunnel to a deeper cave system? Was it imprisoned after the war? Or did Eru Ilvatur somehow bring it under Moria when he was globifying the planet?
Or was it just magic, and it fled there by traveling between shadows or whatever?
On that note, there’s a theory that elves can see so far because the world is still flat to them. They are mostly creatures of spirit as well, but men and dwarves are not. Who knows how a Balrog really sees the world? Was it really awoken by something as crude as a dwarf being too noisy, or was it their greed that drew its attention?
Hard to say, given it’s a corrupted Maiar and mostly a creature of spirit as a result.
It’s kind of important to remember that the setting literally becomes “material” as the Ages progress, the world only becomes a globe after the drowning of Numenor.
Did it find a secret tunnel to a deeper cave system? Was it imprisoned after the war? Or did Eru Ilvatur somehow bring it under Moria when he was globifying the planet?
Or was it just magic, and it fled there by traveling between shadows or whatever?
On that note, there’s a theory that elves can see so far because the world is still flat to them. They are mostly creatures of spirit as well, but men and dwarves are not. Who knows how a Balrog really sees the world? Was it really awoken by something as crude as a dwarf being too noisy, or was it their greed that drew its attention?