Lord of the RIngs - Gandalf vs Balrog (Crisp 480p)

[JanusPolanski]

I love the look on Legolas face at 1.14. The HOLY SHIT, not a Balrog look!

[TileGuyJesse]

"I am Gandalf the Gay"..

[Dinoslay]

You could call that attitude.

[captclassy]

The cgi is so bad that even today's games have graphics better than this...

[THEm4rduk]

@captclassy you cant do better than that an win two oscars more.

[1169Timothy]

What most people don't know is that Gandalf is actually a God.

[gagnorblu]

@1169Timothy Actually Gandalf is an angel, not a God.

[gagnorblu]

@gagnorblu In addition, the Balrog's master, Morgoth, is the Middle-Earth equivalent of the devil. 5:49

[1169Timothy]

@gagnorblu It is like this:

1st You had a master God who created Lesser Gods like Morgoth back when he as Good. The Greater God created many more Lesser Gods like Morgoth aswell.

2nd The Master God also created Lesser/Lesser Gods like Gandalf and Sauron to serve under the Lesser Gods that he greated first.

3rd The Greater God created these Gods to Govern the world, and to institute the greater Gods will. What Morgoth did was that he decided to forge the world the way he wanted.

[1169Timothy]

@gagnorblu Actually in the LotR universe, Gandalf is a lesser God. There are many lesser Gods and Sauron is one of them too.

[baetuldinpascani]

is there a way i can read lotr books online ? or if i want to buy them where do i order them ? tell me pls , the book seem realy catchy

[Maidhros]

@1169Timothy Gandalf is not a god, he is a Maia. In the early Legendarium, the Maiar race came with the Valar, those who the mankind named Gods, to the circles of Arda.

[1169Timothy]

@Maidhros well when you word it like that then yes you are right.

[TileGuyJesse]

@1169Timothy Wrong. in a letter of 1954, Tolkien refers to Gandalf as an "angel incarnate". In the same letter Tolkien states he was given the form of an old man in order to limit his powers on Earth. Both in 1965 and 1971 Tolkien again refers to Gandalf as an angelic being.  He was, according to his creator J.R.R. Tolkien, the writer of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, an angel. Many have tried to make him more than he was.

[LegendSw0rd]

@1169Timothy Not a God, more like a angle really :P

[mikkooooooooo]

@1169Timothy Gandalf is neither GOD (Eru) nor god (Valar).. Both gandalf and balrog are maiar (either angel or devil)

[MrNorbo95]

@1169Timothy *demi-god

[Maridianokusho]

But what the hell did happen to Gandalf's staff?

[captclassy]

@Maridianokusho It levels up with him! :D

[1169Timothy]

@Maridianokusho Lost in Moria.

[ocelotcrown10]

@Maridianokusho In the book, it broke when he collapsed the bridge.

[Maridianokusho]

"You cannot pass!" and "YOUU SHALL NOT PASS!!!"

[Maridianokusho]

THIS IS BETTER THAN THE GERMAN VERSION (I am german myself)!!!!!!!

[Onaventea]

Dumbledore: Drank bad tasting water

Gandalf: What we all just saw and more.

[Mironario]

Mithraaaaaandiiiir!!!!!!!

[Maridianokusho]

@Mironario Mithrandir, not Mithrandil? Olorin anyway...

[thenoobfactor]

Should have had a sign on the bridge that says :No Balrogs past this point

[xXSISORXx1996]

1:55 holy shit...RUN!!!!

[Chrzoncz]

What's the soundtrack 4:09 - 5:15

[HaruGloryr]

4:16 Batman dive!

[spinfox2000]

BEST part of the movie

[Hunter27885]

Gandalfs facial expression as the growl of the Balrog is like "ohh fuck me".

[Maridianokusho]

@Hunter27885 Yes!! ^^ xD

[captclassy]

So I guess Gandalf levels up after fighting Balrog

[Maridianokusho]

@captclassy You guessed rightly.

[scousekiller3]

i need gandalf as my security guard when jehovas witneses knock at my door

[Colton5]

@scousekiller3 fuckin crazies aren't they

[MPmrbigusdickus]

@scousekiller3 they must go back into the shadows from whence they came. for he is a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the sacret fire of arnor. there nagging will not avail them wielder of boredom. they shall not pass!!!

[daveallyn86]

That is one badass wizard!!

[HyaenusDominae]

I remember the days when 480p was "crisp."

[trickmastermonkey]

some great battle scenes on here, but what I still don't understand is the continuity problem of how they both got from the bottom pit cave of the Earth (in water) all the way to the top of a dungeon on a snowy mountain. did Gandalf and the Balrog had to call a truce? Was the Balrog still on fire when it landed in the water? and how the hell did they get out of that cave? finally, who sent Gandalf back from being a grey into the white wizard, and erasing some of the memories of his previous life

[Scukmydcik1]

@trickmastermonkey Only people who have read the books could answer your questions.

[trickmastermonkey]

@Scukmydcik1 yeah that's what I was thinking

[ingvomi]

@trickmastermonkey the Balrog himself led Gandalf out of the tunnels - he knew the way out of the dark and Gandalf just pursued him.And the only way out of there was the road which ended atop the tower on which the two fought in the end.

Yeah,the water extinguished the Balrog's fire, but in the books Gandalf says that he was like a horrifying black snake, dangerous all the same, when his fire was gone.

And who sent Gandalf back? Probably the Valar, "demigods" of Middle-Earth

[trickmastermonkey]

@ingvomi thank you for the info! I have not yet read the books but maybe I should start

[jayalexander1991]

i swear him dying there was like how in an rpg you lose your highest level character and get left with 2 decent characters and 5 other garbage

[watchtrillions]

Eldritch Wizardry.

Demon of Might.

Run for your Life!!!!!!

A Balrog is one step below Sauron!!!!!

[Trund27]

Fantastic edit of a spectacular battle

[Underworldisis1]

To Gandolf & Aragorn-Gandolf would say Horse Happy when Gollum would say Sad. Remember Aragorn it was you & good steed that helped free me from a Harem they tried to sell me into to die. I loved horses but every stable I earned & I have none so angry I could make Eqqus extinct from the face of earth which means I am sadder than Gollum thought. I owe Aragorn one I may be able to resurrect your bride fallen mortal & bring her to immortal realm again. Yet the end of the world may be. Seek Galadriel

[SN323xx]

YOOUUUUUU SHALLL NOOTTTTT PASSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lundahlium]

Gandalf and Saruman are the shit in this movie

[W8TLESSTON]

I only noticed just now that Gandalf absorbed the lightning in his sword and killed the Balrog.

[WunderJahre]

Note to self: Don't....f*ck....with....Ganda­lf.

[5h06un]

So he changed to White Mage? that's fucking lame... who's gonna DPS for them now?!!

[CTOozarussj]

2:32_________the frodo face is amazing

[danphillboii]

when it was falling it had wings use em u black twat!!!

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[KeizerXilian]

@danphillboii Two reasons why he can't. First and foremost, there's not enough space for him to fly. He'd be hitting the walls. Secondly, he already did hit the walls. If you watch near the end, right before they hit the water as they fall, the Balrog tries to fly and can't. All the hits against the wall broke his wings.

[rtbjk]

witch king vs gandalf scene was so fucking bullshit(extended)gandalf is much more powerful than him

[DragonTycoon]

@SASknifeBOY & Mithril :P

[vikramaLP]

My take on how the RPG works...more of logic than how the story is written,It makes lots of sence, when you kill a higher being in RPG, you get promoted to a higher level. Here killing a Demon which is at least 20 level higher than a Wizard(Gandalf The Grey), he gets promoted to Grand Wizard(Demi-Godlike)......GAND­ALF THE WHITE!

[SASknifeBOY]

5:51 runescape stole the Korasi sword from lord of the rings :O

[SASknifeBOY]

1:07 love it when he says that

[Stridus7]

You shall not pass! >>>> Fus Ro Dah!

[big927927]

loved this video so much great job.

[kmofoshomyho]

why does he say "fly you fools" ?

[DARKDYNAMO4]

@kmofoshomyho he says that meaning that they should run away quickly

[agasp3rino]

Hm a long time ago i believe i read someone saying that the physics of gandalf and the balrog falling was incorrect. Well, if they were in a vacuum then yes both would have same accelerations, but the reason gandalf is able to catch up to the balrag lies in understanding drag. Case in point -- look at how gandalf falls, and look how the balrag falls; the surface area of air hitting the balrag compared to gandalf is much much greater. hence why gandalf is able to "dive" toward the balrag

[MrQmason]

Gandalf is a BADD cat !

[TheWisemonkey8]

I love these films... loved the books as a kid. I cannot wait till the hobbit...YES!

[zoebiflap]

5:58

He killed a Balrog. Gandalf is the Balrog-born!

[Quaesar17]

why dont they help gandalf before he falls lol , maybe try and pull him up? idk lol

[timenyart]

@Quaesar17 well he was supposed to kill the balrog

[Michel6789100]

the besr is legolas face

[Kralkatorik]

Thumbs up if Balrog is your favorite bad guy :D

[sumo45069]

@Kralkatorik I like Lurtz better even though obviously he would lose in a fight with the balrog

[PhantasyMugen]

@Kralkatorik He was, until he took a Gandalf to the knee.

[rugbyfan0025]

@Kralkatorik sorry the witch king stole my heart long ago

[TheMrwouldyourather]

@Kralkatorik After the Witch King of Angmar.

[Bubbapug1985]

@ 0:58. Aragorn is like WTF is that!

[Bubbapug1985]

Like how Gimli is like, 'Ah Eh' :)

[lestat2788]

you shall not dislike!

[jteenking]

To realize

[jteenking]

It took these dumbasses this long realize they should get the hell outta there

[clouduiss]

So epic

[kaankarul]

dwarfs:worst bridge builders ever

[barberino182]

@kaankarul at least stick a railing on there for gods sake!

[blahbutt23]

@kaankarul the bridge was meant to put the enemy in single file as they cross to enter Moria so killing them one by one would have been a very clever and smart tactic when fighting an enemy that can reproduce exponentially but i will say this the dwarves devlved to deep and too greedily and awoken the Balrog causing hundreds of years of terror within moria

[Maridianokusho]

@blahbutt23 Until the Mayar Olorin (Gandalf) faces him... And beats him after an epic battle over days..

[TheEpicBalrog]

EPIC Balrog

[BAnAnZooR]

How did they get up on the Peak? they fell in the river.. and then up on a peak.

[Bubbapug1985]

@BAnAnZooR lol I was thinking the same thing.

[drekfletch]

@BAnAnZooR The book tells of the stair that starts at the root of the mountain, that lake at the bottom. This stair climbs all the way to the peak, the tower they were on. Gandalf chased the Balrog all the way up the mountain.

[avpandcog]

what does gandalf say when he is fighting the balrog

[unholyimage]

@avpandcog "You cannot pass! I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Arnor. Dark fire shall not avail you. Flame of Udun! Go back to the shaddow. YOOUUUU SHALL NOT PAAAAASS!"

[Bubbapug1985]

@unholyimage WHAT IS THIS NEW DEVILRY? A DEMON OF THE ANCIENT WORLD! A BALROG!

[iHighQuality]

@1XbatistaX1 ur right. Doesn't have anything to do with slumbering or that hes old. Hè didnt know hè would fell so was directly too late for using his wings.

[iHighQuality]

@cleba76 lol xd yes indeed

[cleba76]

YOU SHALL NOT FUCKING PASS BITCH!

[lilestfozzy]

they were falling for around 1:03 seconds ... that is around 60k feet. moria is around 60k deep!

[lacky133]

Very nicely done. You've got some editing talent.

[FloodLightning]

@lacky133 Thank you. I only had Windows Live Movie Maker to work with - felt like I didn't have many options.

[Trund27]

@FloodLightning It's beautifully done

[trancecrew]

I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor, The dark fire will not avail you!!!!!

[mansbearspigs]

Aragorn: "Gandalph"

Gandalph: "Gandalph? yes....that is what they used to call me...Gandalph the grey....that was name."

Gimli: "Gandalph!"

Gandalph: "I am Gandalph the God"

-This is the real Dialogue!

[FCREVSOCCER32]

I love how G-man Runs

[putademerda22]

That dislike is from Balrog

[perrolife213]

so gandalf used ex calibur (the sword) to kill this fallen angel??? reminds me of the bible where archangel michael fought lucifer..

[Whiteheart1204]

@perrolife213

Not Excalibur. That's in the legend of king Arthur.

Gandalf's sword is named Glamdring, the Foehammer. He found it in the same cave that Bilbo found Sting.

[venostar]

love it

[ImmortalMelon]

Im still amazed Gandalf slayed a god...

[MrJoses2]

@ImmortalMelon the balrog is not a god, is just maiar (servent of the "bad good" for the humans in the book)

[IsolationInstigation]

@ImmortalMelon He's Istari, they're capable of many things.

[drekfletch]

@ImmortalMelon Of course, it's comparing hierarchies from parallel branches, but I've always seen them as rough equals. The Istari are a subcatagory of the good branch of Maiar, who were among the Ainur who sang the song of existence. Balrogs are a subcatagory of the evil branch of Maiar.

[MoonsKitchenKL]

"Glamdring glitters white in answer...."

[SparklingControversy]

5:02 is such an incredible shot.

[jkatawrath]

he's such an awesome old man

[MegaSmud]

Isn´t this a movie mistake? Gandalf's sword falls into the abyss, while Gandalf is still up. After some time, Gandalf falls into the abyss and overtake the falling sword.

[neocyran]

@bloodystain

what in the world does mass has to do with the falling velocity? were you sleeping at schools physics? bodies of different mass fall equally quick. The acceleration is fixed.

But Balrog's terminal velocity is much as he is so big and not exactly areodinamically shaped.

Still, Gandalf shouldn't be able to catch up to his sword, but let's skip that as he needed it to whoop the demons ass.

[bloodystain]

@neocyran Ah ah god you're right I guess I was. I stand corrected, then. Still!...wizard powers can bend laws of physics, that's a fact.

[MegaSmud]

@bloodystain I did not know, that Gandalf is not human.

[rugbyfan0025]

@MegaSmud he was an istari, which was a type of maiar which is basically a demi-god.....the valar were the almighty gods and the maiar were weaker gods

[filipesiegrist]

@rugbyfan0025 i think the valar are like archangels and the maiar like angels because in the tolkien's world there's only one god (Ilúvatar)

[Upsilonofficial]

If we can draw any conclusion from this video its that the balrog did not enfact "pass"

[06burhan]

one dislike is an orc

[xCAFLOPPY24x]

U SHALL NOT PASS

[Chicoski99]

Bull Shat if Gandalf the Grey can kill a fuckin bad ass Balrog how the hell can the Witch King beat Gandalf the White? A Balrog could take on all the black robe stalker Rider guys.

[shatterhandeve]

@Chicoski99 the witch king cannot be beaten by men, Gandalf is a man too, I.E. he has a penis....

[MrJoses2]

@shatterhandeve well yeah he has a penis but also the elfs and dwarfs, hes not a men hes is a maiar with the form of and old men

[EndOfKevin829]

I dont know why balrog didnt just use his wings..

[AlmightyHiggey]

@EndOfKevin829 They're made out of shadow, or something, so they can't be used for flight.

[JapaneseModernist]

@EndOfKevin829 It tried : (

[lykos619]

@JapaneseModernist Awww, that's so sad. :( 

[MoonsKitchenKL]

@EndOfKevin829 it is made from smoke and ashes which is impossible for flight..

[tnfj3000]

@EndOfKevin829 If you spent 10,000 years underground, you might experience wing atrophy as well.

[1XbatistaX1]

@EndOfKevin829 Because is he to heavy and he is falling very fast to the ground, Thats why.

[TheLydianRocks]

@1XbatistaX1 Lol you don't get the joke then :D

[headstomper17]

@EndOfKevin829 the balrogs wings were worn and teared apart from years of slumbering.

[Nihm420]

@EndOfKevin829

Look at his "wings" - they are skeletal.

[DeltaKilo3]

@EndOfKevin829 He didn't look like the most agile flyer, and to him the space was quite narrow. He probably would not have been able to gain proper momentum without hitting something. He realistically would have at least tried, though.

I'm just trying to think of an explanation. You observation is valid.

[LuniaVideo]

@EndOfKevin829 Balrogs can't fly

[pedrobmf262]

@EndOfKevin829 that always got me too, I guess its because he didn't have much room, but thats just my theory

[OddjobHut]

@EndOfKevin829 he is to heavy to fly :D you can read it in wiki

[adeliethepenguin]

@EndOfKevin829 Well...technically the books are unclear as to whether the balrog has wings or not. It states that "the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings" - this could be literal, stating the Balrog has wings dark like shadow, or only metaphorical. It simply looks more dramatic for it to have wings, thus added for cinematic effect.

.

Probably too heavy anyway.

[MrEifla]

@EndOfKevin829

You need a run up in order to fly. Unless the Balrog was able to flap his whings a thousand times a second like a hummingbird.

[PharaChris]

@EndOfKevin829 His roll for the nice was a natural one.

[waisehell]

can anyone tell me why they didn't let frodo help him get up the bridge? the balrog did fell after that..

[xRagma]

imagine a hundred of this motherfuckers running around causing mayhem in a war

[schwarzfalk]

btw it's a pity no dragon vs balrog fight ever took place :/

[JeffDahlin]

@schwarzfalk

Also, I think you have to take into account that Galdalf is using wizard magic very heavily in the battle. I think the spells he casts (and those that the balrog casts) are half the battle here.

[schwarzfalk]

@JeffDahlin fair point, he's also a maiar :)

[dog75k]

@magicmaker2006 lol sorry, i did not mean to offend all the LOTR nerds out there. Please accept my most sincere apology :)

[schwarzfalk]

a sword made by mere elves killed a demon? ooks like they made the balrog a lot weaker than in the books (in the book these things are maiars, way higher than elves)

[Buliwyf90]

@schwarzfalk in the books a "mere" elf manage to heavily injure Morgoth in a one on one duel with a sword, so it is not so strange that a maiar (Gandalf) manage to kill another maiar (balrog) with a sword

[schwarzfalk]

@Buliwyf90

then it make even less sense, Morgoth is basically a god he shouldn't have even felt the word (unless it was a god's sword, huh)

[Buliwyf90]

@schwarzfalk you just have to accept the fact that in tolkien's world the elves are not simply a race of nimble men with pointy ears and long lifespan, but they are truly supernatural beings very far above humans, and they are able even to impress the Valar with their works (just think about the 3 silmarils)

[schwarzfalk]

@Buliwyf90 elves are also mortal beings (not immortal on same level as maiars) who can be killed by blades & arrows like anyone else and who just use a bit of magic to stop aging. if elf-magic could really kill a balrog (a maiar) why couldn't they use the same magic to kill Sauron (also a maiar) and destroy his ring? not even their combined power could do that, by their own admission. they didn't even resist the ring's power (they just avoided it by taking off their own rings)

[neptunium]

The one dislike is from the Balrog

[wraithspirits]

Lightning Sword to the chest. Works just as well as an arrow to the knee!

[Countercruel]

sorry, you can call it a balrog as that's the species name for it.

[Countercruel]

The balrog of morgoth wasn't the balrogs name. its a turn of phrase as to say this is one of the balrogs that got corrupted by morgoth (Melkor)

The balrog of morgoth's (unknown number left in middle earth) most known name is in fact Durins bane. it means it was the creature that slain Durin after he tried to take back moria.... hope this helps.

[liamd131]

You cut out Crazy Stairs :(

[NukemHigh225]

"Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountain side"- Most epic line ever.

[LinkinParkFan12121]

lol 1:15 legolas is like.... oh, shit i just pissed myself :D hes my fav character

[Zombiedog1198]

The balrog didn't want this on youtube

[xfact9r]

if they would serve Sauron..

[TheAgent181]

"The balrog!..."

"A demon of the legend world..."

"This foe is beyond any of you..."

"DON'T YOU FUCKING GET IT! URGH FFS RUN!"

so fucking epic