#durins bane with gandalf

[cultofthewyrm]

You Shall Not Pass by Reza Afshar

[ungoliantschilde]

Gandalf and Durin’s Bane, by Mattias Bergara

[balu8]

Gandalf vs. the Balrog

by Daniel Govar

[theworldsoftolkein]

The Mines of Moria - by Gellihana-art

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Lord of the Rings / Le Seigneur des Anneaux

Source : Phantomcitycreatve.com

Client : Bottleneck Gallery

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

[lotrscenes]

This quote, by Gimli, is my absolute favourite quote! 🍺

Quoted directly from: The Two Towers, ch. V, The White Rider, p. 501

Artists Featured: BenJuddArt (Gimli) | EpicSteps Deviantart (Gandalf)

[valoniaart]

Gandalf vs Balrog

[mexican-browser]

A Dumb LOTR Exchange

*at the bridge of Khazad-Dûm:*

Gandalf: Illuvatar’s ass on a stick, I wish we had a Balrog-slayer right about now.

Frodo: Why, do you know one? There can’t possibly be that many left—

Gandalf: Glorfindel of Gondolin.

Frodo: Ok, but where could we find—

Gandalf: Back in Rivendell. He was the rocking elven twink with perfect hair next to me and Elrond. Picked you morons up when you had a bad spice trip using the ring. Uppity prick was the one who suggested we just chuck that ring into the ocean like it isn’t just going to pop back up in a few centuries down the line. That’s what happened last time, you know when Isildur—

Aragorn: When Isildur hocked the ring like it was a bag of gummies at Tesco?

Gandalf: Pretty much, yeah.

Frodo: Well, why isn’t the noble Glorfindel here anyway?

Gandalf: Cuz Elrond thought we wouldn’t need him on a stealth mission. Well, surprise, we kinda f****** need him! But noooooo, you guys tooootallyy don’t need a Balrog-slayer. Now it’s my ass on the line, and I didn’t put up with the the idiocies of men and half-wit hobbits for centuries just to go down like this in an abandoned dwarven realm haunted by orcs and cave trolls! Saruman’s out there smoking pot reenacting the first act of The Lorax, Radaghast is talking to the woodland beings like a Disney Princess, and I’m pretty sure the Two Blues are either dead or ghosting me, and I’m here left dealing with a f******* Balrog! Bollocks!

*Silence as the ominous footfalls of certain death approaches*

Gimli: I didn’t understand a word he just said right now.

Legolas: No one can understand you through your own thick accent, sir dwarf, but we manage.

[dartxo]

"Battle of the Maiar"

2022

"Long time I fell. Long I fell, and he fell with me."

-"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", by J.R.R. Tolkien

Without question or doubt, my favorite scene in The Two Towers is the opening: the flashback to Gandalf's fall at the Bridge of Khazad-dûm, his plunge beyond the furthest depths of the mines of the dwarves and into the very foundations of the earth, all whilst locked in a fierce battle to the death with the Balrog of Morgoth.

I challenge anyone who has read the novel if they say they imagined something near as grand and epic as the duel we saw on the screen. Everything about this sequence is perfect: from the way Gandalf grabs his sword in midair, to the way the chasm lights up as he catches up to the Balrog, giving the impression as if he were falling into a fiery hell; the phenomenal chorus, the enormous underground lake that opens up at the end of their fall that makes the Balrog appear like a little speck of fire in the darkness.

It's a great clash of powers at the heart of the Earth itself, a battle worthy of the legends of the Elder Days. And as far as I'm concerned, the greatest, most epic duel ever put to screen.

[cultofthewyrm]

LOTR: Gandalf & Balrog by Coliandre

[allbycharles]

Gandalf: arrives to Lorien via eagle

Celeborn: soooooooo

Galadriel: was the balrog hot?

[inahandful-of-dust]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002) Dir. Peter Jackson

[theworldsoftolkein]

[gotham-at-nightfall]

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!

By Valonia-Feline