Balrog vs Hogwarts

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2003-07-17 02:16am

LOTR Balrog vs Hogwarts. Inspired by Smaug vs Hogwarts

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2003-07-17 02:29am

What can one do to a creature made of smoke and fire?

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2003-07-17 02:35am

Balrog wrote:What can one do to a creature made of smoke and fire?

Lure it into a room and suck out all the oxygen.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-07-17 02:48am

BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:
Balrog wrote:What can one do to a creature made of smoke and fire?
Lure it into a room and suck out all the oxygen.

Piece of cake; Hermione's already drawing up blueprints of the room.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2003-07-17 02:54am

Zaia wrote:
BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:
Balrog wrote:What can one do to a creature made of smoke and fire?
Lure it into a room and suck out all the oxygen.
Piece of cake; Hermione's already drawing up blueprints of the room.

Hermione is a bookworm and very clever, but she hasn't shown the ability to actually engineer.

Yeah, I know I'm being tediously literal.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-07-17 03:01am

Eleas wrote:Hermione is a bookworm and very clever, but she hasn't shown the ability to actually engineer.

Yeah, I know I'm being tediously literal.

I picture her rushing to the library to research the Balrog. Once she understands what it is, she will think of its weakness. Then she would rush over to find a map of the school, figure out what room would work best for this purpose. If she couldn't come up with anything, all she'd have to do would be to go back to that room of necessity, which would turn itself into whatever she needed it to be (ie, a room with an air vacuum with some Balrog bait in the middle of it). While all this is going on, I can picture her towing Ron and Harry along with her, running her mouth a mile a minute, explaining what the Balrog would do if they didn't make her plan work, with them looking vaguely alarmed as she shoves books under their noses, backing up what she has to say.

The end.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2003-07-17 03:08am

Zaia wrote:all she'd have to do would be to go back to that room of necessity (book 5, where they did their Defense Against the Dark Arts labs), which would turn itself into whatever she needed it to be (ie, a

*wince* Please, Zaia... spoiler space?

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-07-17 03:11am

Oh, jeez, I'm sorry, hon. That was thoughtless of me--it was just what came into my head, as to how she'd deal with the problem. Sorry. If I could go back to edit that too, I would, but as you can see, that whole edit thing was eluding me before, as it is now....... I apologize if I ruined anything for you.

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2003-07-17 03:15am

And the Balrog, being the unintelligent, ferel beast that it is, will just wander right into said room with "Balrog bait" [/sarcasmoff]

For a creature that can cast spells with the best of 'em in Middle Earth, the Moria Balrog isn't gonna fall for a little schoolgirl's trap

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2003-07-17 03:34am

Zaia wrote:Oh, jeez, I'm sorry, hon. That was thoughtless of me--it was just what came into my head, as to how she'd deal with the problem. Sorry. If I could go back to edit that too, I would, but as you can see, that whole edit thing was eluding me before, as it is now....... I apologize if I ruined anything for you.

S'okay, girl. I just got into a fairly nasty flamewar with someone else because Eframepilot decided to post the details on the Voldemort / Dumbledore duel.

By the way, our dog was just buried. Hence my change of avatar.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-07-17 04:53am

Against the massed forces of Hogwarts - teachers and students together, then I think even Gothmog would have a hard time, I mean, assuming that blanketing the thing with spells would work, then the school wins.

The Balrog managed to pass through the underground lakes of Moria, and survived well enough to climb the highest staircase in middle earth to fight Gandalf again, if it didnt drown there, then how can we be sure that sucking all the oxygen out of a room will work? And we know far more about Hogwarts then we do the Balrog, annoying really.

Hogwarts 1, Morgroth 0

Against Harry, Ron and Hermione, in the traditional way, then I suspect that the Balrog will have a very easy time - we saw the Balrog nearly shatter Gandalf's control over the door with a spell, so we have to assume that the Balrog is a very powerful magical entity (obviously we have no comparison method between the two worlds).

So, if the Balrog can get in with either its flame sword, flame whip or mace (I think), then I doubt 3 teenage wizards are going to survive - we havent really seen an expelliarmus spell work against a more powerful foe, Harry vs Voldemort was stopped by the reversey spell thingy, so we dont know whether they'll be able to disarm the thing before it can bring its weapons to bear.

Add to that the fact that the Balrog has the ability to manipulate the shadow around it (the old Balrog wings/shadow chestnut), and I suspect that hitting the Balrog with a spell with only 3 people will be harder than it looks.

Bah, I don't know, we know next to nothing about the Balrogs - all I know is that we're not talking cavetroll intelligence here, Gothmog was made lieutenant of Angband, you dont put someone with less than 2 braincells in charge of your vital fortress.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-07-17 12:24pm

Eleas wrote:S'okay, girl. I just got into a fairly nasty flamewar with someone else because Eframepilot decided to post the details on the Voldemort / Dumbledore duel.

Gah! I hate that, which is why I simply felt awful that I had done so to you.

By the way, our dog was just buried. Hence my change of avatar.

Oh, that's terribly sad. There's nothing I can say that will make you feel better, so--*hugs* I'm terribly sorry, sweetie.