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Aftermath. With the Dwarven colony destroyed, Moria continued to be a place of evil that few dared enter. By TA 3019, King Dáin II had become concerned at the lack of news from Moria, and Glóin was sent to the Council of Elrond partly to ascertain news of the colony.
Even after the end of the War, many Dwarves refused to reclaim Moria, partially because of the Durin's Bane. Years later however, the Dwarves managed to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.
The Balrog Becomes the Downfall of Moria
The Balrog nearly destroys the city, and the fleeing Dwarves rename it “Moria.” Moria becomes a stronghold for Sauron's forces when goblins, cave-trolls, and Orcs come to inhabit it.
In The Fellowship of the Ring, one of the Dwarves of Thorin's company, Glóin tells the Council of Elrond that Balin had left Erebor and ventured to reclaim Moria with a company of Dwarves including Óin and Ori (two of his companions from the Quest of Erebor), and Flói, Frár, Lóni, and Náli.
After ruling as Moria's Lord for about five years, Balin was slain by Orcs on November 10 TA 2994, after going to look upon the Mirromere alone. His body was recovered after a battle, and entombed in the Chamber of Mazarbul.
Thrór. Thrór was grandfather to Thorín Oakenshield and father of Thráin. He died in the Mines of Moria after his kingdom was stolen by Smaug the dragon.
Myth: Gimli is the last dwarf.
Though Gimli has no children, he is not the last Dwarf of Middle-earth. After the fall of Sauron, his people continued to thrive in the Lonely Mountain. Gimli made his home in Rohan, in the Glittering Caves of Aglarond, and many of his kinsfolk came with him.
Gimli, the dwarf, did not know that Moria had fallen because he was not present during the events that led to its fall.
He proclaimed himself Lord of Moria. For five years the colony thrived. They managed to find many old treasures such as Durin's Axe, helm, mithril, and armouries. But on 10 November T.A. 2994, as Balin went to look in Mirrormere, an orc archer fatally shot him.
Return to Moria is an upcoming third-person survival crafting game from North Beach Games, where players take control over Dwarves as they rush back into Moria to take it back from horrors that now reside within.
Orcs were able to creep into Moria. As a result, many of the Silvan Elves of Lothlórien fled to the south. For five hundred years, Moria was left to the Balrog.
He had been through Moria (more than once), but if memory serves he had only gone East to West, never West to East. So when he came to this place before, he may not have realized it was a fork in the road as he was coming out if the fork, not into the fork.
Erebor in The Lord of the Rings
Some of the Dwarves, led by Balin, left Erebor to reclaim the ancient Dwarvish Kingdom of Khazad-dûm (also known as Moria).
Fearful. He would have been dreading the possibility but certainly he was grief stricken once he found nobody alive and Balin's tomb with the book to confirm events. Nobody can be fully prepared for the death of people they know and love.
Their language of Khuzdul is a secret that they don't share with outsiders, so writing it on a public door wouldn't have been allowed. As such, the choice to have Moria's password be in Elvish both reflects the friendship between the two peoples and Dwarven culture.
All he knew was that Moria had been evacuated because of something called Durin's Bane, and that it still lurks inside. And while he does know that Orcs attacked the Dwarven kingdom, it was many years ago, and so he hoped they were gone.
Dwarves were long-lived, with a lifespan of some 250 years. They breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry. Tolkien names only one female, Dís, Thorin's sister. They are still considered children in their 20s, as Thorin was at age 24; and as "striplings" in their 30s.
Frodo and Bilbo were comfortable and well off until T.A. 3001. At this time, Bilbo threw an enormous party to celebrate his 111th birthday, and Frodo's 33rd, the date of Frodo's coming of age. At this party Bilbo gave his farewell speech, and made his long-planned "disappearance" and withdrawal from the Shire.
After Aragorn's death, Gimli (then 262 years old) sails with Legolas into the West, becoming the first Dwarf in the Undying Lands.
The relative absence of dwarves in The Lord of the Rings can be attributed to Tolkien's focus on men as the future of Middle-Earth. When the Third Age ends and Sauron is defeated, the elves are leaving for the Undying Lands, and the dwarves are dwindling in number, but the realm of men grows under Aragorn's leadership.
Balin's tomb was the burial place of Balin, Lord of Moria, after his death in T.A. 2994.
2008: The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria:
It shows the last moments of Balin's expedition during T.A. 2994, in which the dwarves make their last desperate stand in the Chamber of Mazarbul and Ori is killed by Mazog, son of Bolg.
Gandalf pursued the monster for eight days, until they climbed to the peak of Zirakzigil, where the Balrog was forced to turn and fight, its body erupting into new flame. Here they fought for two days and nights. In the end, the Balrog was defeated and cast down, breaking the mountainside where it fell "in ruin".