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Anachronism!

zide56zide56 Member Posts: 356
in Lord of the Rings Online

I have found a chronological error in Middle-Earth Online!  According to the official site, the time of MEO takes place right after the Fellowship leaves Moria.  However, you supposedly can fight the Balrog in this game.

But if the Fellowship has just left Moria, wouldn't the Balrog be busy fighting Gandalf?  Wow...these are some scholars they have working on this game. image

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  • hqarmstronghqarmstrong Member Posts: 5

    Upon what incorrect basis did you determine that a Balrog is a unique entity? We need only consult the text to discover the truth:

    LOTR Appendix A: III (Durin’s Folk) paragraph 3, 'Thus they roused from sleep a thing of terror that, flying from Thangorodrim, had lain hidden at the foundations of the earth since the coming of the Host of the West: a Balrog of Morgoth.'


  • DrakaeonDrakaeon Member Posts: 630


    Originally posted by zide56
    I have found a chronological error in Middle-Earth Online!  According to the official site, the time of MEO takes place right after the Fellowship leaves Moria.  However, you supposedly can fight the Balrog in this game.
    But if the Fellowship has just left Moria, wouldn't the Balrog be busy fighting Gandalf?  Wow...these are some scholars they have working on this game. image

    Read the books, don't just see the movies.

    *Contrary to popular belief, you will not die if you read a book*


    Waiting for Guild Wars XD

  • bart.pietersbart.pieters Member Posts: 11


    Originally posted by zide56

    I have found a chronological error in Middle-Earth Online!  According to the official site, the time of MEO takes place right after the Fellowship leaves Moria.  However, you supposedly can fight the Balrog in this game.
    But if the Fellowship has just left Moria, wouldn't the Balrog be busy fighting Gandalf?  Wow...these are some scholars they have working on this game. image


    The Balrog in Moria should either be engaged in battle with Gandalf or defeated. Either way we should not be able to meet and fight it. However there were more Balrogs  (1 or 2 others) in Middle-earth: we could meet them somewhere down at the foundations of the earth for instance in the Blue Mountains.

  • GambinoGambino Member Posts: 31

    Durin's Bane (the name of that particular Balrog) was one of the last known Balrogs alive, if not the last. That doesn't mean however, that there aren't more. The developers could awaken some of their own for the game.

  • bart.pietersbart.pieters Member Posts: 11
    Tolkien said that after the War of Wrath most Balrogs were destroyed and the remaining few Balrogs fled and hid at the roots of the mountains or something like that: a few indeed remained.
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