Thread:Indiana53/@comment-25356210-20150508004205/@comment-9854464-20150508005703

Yeah sure. The item the Balrog dropped happened when the elves ousted Melkor from Udun in the first age. Its called the stone of Morgoth. It has part of Melkor's spirit in it, similarly to Sauron being in the One Ring. It was picked up by Elrond's Grand father, who met his doom on a mountain pass in the north. It is supposed to be his spirit trying to tell someone, and he just happened to see them. He is going to wake up in an Uruk dungeon on Caradhras and have to fight out. He gets mortally wounded, and passes out again. You find him at some point, still alive, but only just. He can't be saved, but he passes the information along, then at some point one of the fellowship starts to see the visions, and figures out where it is. The Balrog that dropped it was not killed, it was the one that escaped and fought Gandalf. Elrond's grandfather helped Gandalf defeat it although he didn'tt know it.