- Moria/Balrog -

The orkish loremaster says 'Far beyond the river's bend,'

The orkish loremaster says 'Past mud-choked stream and rotting fen'

The orkish loremaster says 'Forgotten paths and broken trails'

The orkish loremaster says ''neath caverns deep where sunlight fails'

The orkish loremaster says 'Once lived a beast of untold pow'r'

The orkish loremaster says 'Before its wrath, the gods would cower.'

The orkish loremaster says 'It sat upon a dwarf-skull throne'

The orkish loremaster says 'And on its brow, a crown of bone'

The orkish loremaster says 'At beck and call an orkish horde'

The orkish loremaster says 'To put the elf-lords to the sword.'

The orkish loremaster says 'Inscribed above its cavern's maw:'

The orkish loremaster says '"Ex Ignorati Ad Tenebras"'

The orkish loremaster says 'In days of old the stories tell,'

The orkish loremaster says 'The dwarves they delved their way to hell.'

The orkish loremaster says 'They raped the land's bejewelled mud,'

The orkish loremaster says 'And drained the hills of golden blood.'

The orkish loremaster says 'So deep within its mountain fast,'

The orkish loremaster says 'The Beast arose to fight at last.'

The orkish loremaster says 'To save its home gave it the right'

The orkish loremaster says 'To kill the Dwarven parasite.'

The orkish loremaster says 'Its legions fought from room to room'

The orkish loremaster says 'Throughout the pit of Khazad-dum.'

The orkish loremaster says 'They died upon the Endless Stair'

The orkish loremaster says 'While blood ran red on Durin's Chair.'

The orkish loremaster says 'With orcs above and It below,'

The orkish loremaster says 'The dwarves had nowhere left to go.'

The orkish loremaster says 'While rooms were burned in crimson fire'

The orkish loremaster says 'They fled before the Dread Beast's ire.'

The orkish loremaster says 'Supports flame weakened, ceiling fell.'

The orkish loremaster says 'If It survived, not one could tell.'

The orkish loremaster says 'Dismayed, the orcs let some escape.'

The orkish loremaster says 'Yet ever dwarves they long for Home,'

The orkish loremaster says 'Where orcs and trolls and worse now roam.'

The orkish loremaster says 'Legends have grown throught the years'

The orkish loremaster says 'Of wealth uncounted, spoils of tears.'

The orkish loremaster says 'Of blood of men who dared to brave'

The orkish loremaster says 'that evil lurking 'neath the cave.'

The orkish loremaster says 'Dwells It still in ruined keep?'

The orkish loremaster says '"That does not die, which can eternal sleep."'