What would happen if the Balrog got hold of the One Ring?
he'd become a small sun inside moria and explode the entire mountainthen destroy the doors of night and release morgoth
>>23818633If it kept it, slow self destruction like Gollum, but much more powerful. But I imagine thralldom to Sauron and delivering the ring to him.
Gimli would beat his ass
>>23818633Try starting the thread off with what you think would've happened if Balrog got a hold of the one ring to get the conversation going. This thread is low effort and extractive.
>>23818633Oddly enough, probably nothing. The ring is all about domination, control, and preservation. It's about building vast empires and ruling kingdoms. The Balrog has no interest in that kind of thing. He just wants to destroy.
>>23819122Sauron HIMSELF is a Maia, just like all the Balrogs. They're of equal spiritual strength and rank. The Balrog has no compulsion to listen to Sauron other than him being the reigning Dark Lord, and the Balrog himself could easily usurp him with the power of the Ring.Only question is if it would want to. As >>23818853 suggests, loyalty to Morgoth might compel him to use the power of the Ring to free him from the Void. Only question is, would a Balrog wielding the Ring be able to assail Valinor?
>>23819525>Only question is, would a Balrog wielding the Ring be able to assail Valinor?Obviously not.
>>23819525Didn't Tolkien said that some maias were massively more powerful than others?
>>23819525>They’re of equal spiritual strength and rankYou’re wrong. They’re of the same order of Ainur, but that doesn’t mean they are equals. Sauron is far stronger than Gandalf and the Balrogs.
>>23818633>What would happen if the Balrog got hold of the One Ring?The Balrog would probably become like a living volcano, an avatar of fire, smoke, and total destruction & devastation, and wreck terrible havoc on Middle Earth until it got bored and went back to bed. I don't think Durin's Bane is strong enough to release Morgoth, but I don't think anyone in the setting is powerful enough, nor clever enough, to really do anything about the Balrog's subsequent unsophisticated rampage.I also think this would be the 'death' of Sauron. I don't think Sauron, in his weakened state, would be capable of taking, nor corrupting, the Balrog in such a state. The Ring corrupted and rotted lesser people, but Durin's Bane is probably one of the handful of entities in the setting that would subvert Sauron's influence and become an even greater evil than he could muster.
>>23818633He would have set himself up as the Dark Lord of Moria and conquered Middle Earth. Sauron would have little recourse to combat the Balrog, he'd spent to much of himself, and tied to much of his power to the ring. The elves are far too diminished to put up any real resistance, and the Gondorians are a shadow of Numenor. Durin's Bane would spend a decade or so consolidating the orcs of the Misty Mountains, then destroy Lothlorien to open up his border with Sauron's existing power bases at Dol Guldur and Mordor. There are few heroes left in the world able to go toe to toe with him before he has the ring, after he has it the number shrinks even further. Saruman would likely become his lieutenant rather than ask Gandalf for forgiveness. Gandalf would likely build a coalition force out of the free peoples. Lothlorien has likely fallen by this point, as has Gondor, and Dale, and the Lonely-Mountain. Thranduil and the surviving Dwarves and Men conduct guerilla wars in Mirkwood. Main coalition forces gather under Gandalf and Aragorn at Dol Amroth, while a second front is led by Elrond and Glorfindel at Tharbad. The Dunlending clans would play a vital role for good on the second front if they could be turned from Saruman. The Free Peoples would likely link up their two armies and aim for a pitched battle near the gap of Rohan, hoping against hope a hero among them can bum rush Durin's Bane. Merry and Pippin pelt the Balrog with stones stunning him while Aragorn cuts his hand off.
