Where is moira in middle earth

As they pondered the riddle of the Doors of Durin, Boromir threw a rock into the water. After Gandalf opened the gates and the Fellowship moved towards the entrance, the Watcher attacked Frodo, using its many long tentacles to grab hold of his legs.

Sam slashed at the tentacles that were grabbing his friend, managed to injure the monster and it released the hobbit. Gandalf then commanded that the Fellowship run further into the gate to escape the Watcher's wrath.

The enraged monster's tentacles tore down the ancient holly trees which stood on either side of the doors, the Gate, and many boulders, thus trapping the Fellowship inside the darkness of Moria. The Watcher in the Water is seen in Peter Jackson 's rendition of The Fellowship of the Ring as a very detailed computer-generated creature.

In the movie, the Watcher is disturbed by Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took , who threw rocks in the water to pass the time while Gandalf tries to figure out the password to gain entrance to Moria.

This differs from the novel, in which it was Boromir who disturbed the water by throwing a stone. In either case, by the time the riddle of the Door is figured out "Speak 'friend' and enter. It catches Frodo and lifts him in the air, despite Samwise Gamgee 's attempts to defend him.

The rest of the Fellowship, who attempt to injure the many serpentine tentacles of the Watcher, save him. The Watcher drops Frodo when it is injured and he is caught by Boromir. Legolas shoots the Watcher in the eye as the Fellowship of the Ring retreats into the Mines of Moria. Just as they make it inside, the Watcher tears down the doorway, and the way out is blocked by falling rocks. After the gate is blocked, the Fellowship is then forced to travel into the darkness of Moria.

Although Tolkien described the creature to have twenty-one tentacles, Peter Jackson instead gave it twelve visible tentacles this was due to the effects team finding that twenty-one tentacles were difficult to render properly. Arwen became mortal.

Arwen was not pure elf. She was also descended from Beren, and Tuor. And Melian. I expect since she expired as a mortal, she left Mandos long ago. Elves hung out in Mandos until they got issued new bodies some have to wait a loooooong time, like Feanor. Mortals pop in briefly at Mandos, then head out for parts unknown.

Yes; its also implied that one human man was allowed to remain in Valinor after he died what was his name again? Elrond chooses Elfhood. Arwen chooses to become human, for love of Aragorn, as Luthien before her had done for love of Beren. I hate to contradict you, Poly , but it is only overtly stated as a legend of the Eldar.

The last we actually see of Tuor and Idril is them sailing off. One of the Elvish tongues? Moria is the Elf name for Khazad-Dum. Dwelling or hole, probably. There are Dopers who can give you a FAR more detailed explanation of both terms. In other words - Tolkien never provided an English-Dwarvish dictionary.

From the Tolkien Sarcasm page: Stupid elves. So here are my mutually exclusive speculations: Khuzdul is positional — having the noun Khazad follow the noun Baruk makes it a modifier, and therefore possessive, of Baruk. Khazad is both nominative plural and genitive plural. Few if any actually ever glimpsed these creatures, and no description of them is extant with the possible exception of the Watcher in the Water , which Gandalf suggested may have come from these regions.

One important feature of the Dwarrowdelf was the defensive structure known as Durin's Bridge, "a slender bridge of stone, without kerb or rail", [4] that spanned a fifty foot wide chasm of indeterminate depth, allowing enemy soldiers to cross it only in single file one after another , not side by side. Another, steeped in legend, was the Endless Stair , which ascended "from the lowest dungeon to the highest peak", [4] where it terminated within Durin's Tower , carved from the solid rock at the tip of Zirakzigil.

During the War of the Elves and Sauron Eregion was destroyed and the survivors, along with a relief army led by Elrond were in danger of being overtaken and destroyed.

Following the battle the Dwarves retreated into their city and closed the gates. It is unclear if the Ring of Power possessed by the House of Durin was given to them by Sauron, as the Dwarves themselves held that it had been given by Celebrimbor himself directly to Durin III, although it had certainly been created by the Dark Lord.

The majority of their wealth was based on their hoards of Mithril , which they mined in their deepest tunnels, and as the centuries went by the Dwarves delved ever deeper for the precious metal.

In TA , they dug too deeply and greedily for Mithril and to their loss they unearthed a nameless terror in the depths beneath the city. This dreadful creature wrought destruction throughout the city wiping out most of the Dwarves and slaying King Durin VI. Thereafter the creature was named Durin's Bane. This was when it was named Moria, the Black Pit. The monster, later revealed as a Balrog of Morgoth, remained alone in Moria for nearly five centuries until it was populated once again, but not by Dwarves.

The Orcs, refugees from the north, began to raid the abandoned city of its treasures and occupied it. They came upon the Balrog and began to worship it as their deity. Sauron started to send out troops of Orcs and Cave Trolls to populate Moria, making the abandoned city a stronghold for them to multiply.

During the Battle of Azanulbizar , many of these Orcs were felled in the valley beneath the eastern gate of Moria in TA , and the numbers were reduced dramatically. He led a group of Dwarves from Erebor to Moria, and successfully drove back the Orcs, taking many of the eastern halls and recovering priceless ancestral treasures such as Durin's Axe. However, the Balrog remained active and the number of Orcs was too great compared to their small company and all, including Balin, were slain in TA