How did Gandalf survive the fall?

There they fought until at last Gandalf threw down his enemy, and the Balrog broke the mountain-side as it fell. Then darkness took Gandalf, and he passed away. Gandalf’s body lay on the peak for nineteen days, until he was resurrected by Eru and sent back to Middle-earth alive to complete his task.

How did the Balrog survive?

For more than five millennia, the Balrog hibernated in his deep hiding place at the roots of the mountains in Khazad-dûm. He remained undisturbed throughout the Second Age and most of the Third, before the mithril-miners of dwarf-King Durin VI awoke him in T.A. 1980.

Why did Gandalf fall after the Balrog?

Short answer: Because Gandalf knew that no one else in the Fellowship could defeat the Balrog, and he stood the best chance. Long answer: The Balrog being left alive was simply not an option. It posed a major threat to the Fellowship and Orcs, and likely did not owe allegiance to anyone but itself.

How did the Balrog get in Moria?

Originally Answered: How did the Balrog get into Moria? After the War of Wrath, he fled far east and hid in inaccessible caverns; then he became trapped there from the cataclysms of the War. Then the Dwarves accidentially released him while they were trying to find mithril.

How did Gandalf kill the Balrog of Moria?

The Balrog of Moria probably could not have been killed by a simple fall from a mountainside, but that is just a guess based on an earlier passage where Gandalf describes his faceless encounter with a powerful foe at the entrance to one of the doors to the Chamber of Mazarbul: Suddenly at the top of the stair there was a stab of white light.

Why didn’t Gandalf fight the Balrog on the way down?

The Balrog was not the brutish creature as portrayed in the movie. It had knowledge of itself and its purpose. It recognized Gandalf and his power. It had knowledge of weapons and their uses. This denotes intelligence. With that being said, Gandalf could NOT take a chance of it getting loose from Moria. That’s why he fought it on the way down.

Was Gandalf supposed to die in the books?

Of all the Fellowship only Gandalf was supposed to NOT die. As one of the Ainur he existed before the universe and therefore death was something very different for him. Death was in fact diminishing in much the way George R.R. Martin feels it should be (for a human character).

What were Gandalf’s last words before falling into the Gulf?

That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, “Fly, you fools.” What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he’s sort of improved.