Balrog
362
MENTIONS
96
EPISODES
83
PODCASTS
Search complete. 362 mentions across 96 episodes found for "Balrog".
Sep 19, 2026
Paige KimseyHOST
but very hobbitly grounded Samwise.
Paige KimseyHOST
And if I said the Balrog, what then? Hey, you can be whoever you want to be in personality or mood.
Paige KimseyHOST
I actually, I'm sticking with that answer.
Paige KimseyHOST
Okay, next.
JamieHOST
I think Glowfindel matches the book version quite nicely.
JamieHOST
He feels like a Balrog killer now.
JamieHOST
Although you can't really make ten wounds on a Balrog without him eventually winning a fight against your mind.
JamieHOST
So it's, you know, you go.
JamieHOST
But...
JamieHOST
yeah so I love I love way glow fidelis now he can go into most monsters and just rip them apart yeah and
NickHOST
he's basically immune to brutal power attacks as well yeah yeah
JonathanHOST
he's so cool yeah but then I do think does he have resistance to magic I don't think he does no Because the other thing that he does, other than, you know, the second coolest thing he does, than, you know, the Balrog killing, tiny little thing, is, like, he scares all the Nazgul away, doesn't he? Yeah.
Steve JacotHOST
So there you go.
Steve JacotHOST
We've got the Balrog here.
Steve JacotHOST
You shall not pass.
Steve JacotHOST
Awesome.
Bill MatzHOST
Yeah, it's cool.
Charlie O'ConnorHOST
He's got, like, the Balrog on it.
Charlie O'ConnorHOST
It's pretty cool.
Bill MatzHOST
Yeah.
MishHOST
That happens, I guess, you know, throughout the country and world.
MishHOST
Uh, even now, it'd be like w- you're gonna go knock on your 15-year-old kid's door and be like, "You wanna learn about Balrog?"
JoeHOST
Yeah.
MishHOST
Like, I've...
NorthieHOST
forever.
NorthieHOST
But I'd like, even for those people who don't know much about the world or Tolkien's works... from his I suppose landing or crash landing with the meteor and him being surrounded by the fire I like how later on it's oh is it Tom Bombadil and he tells the stranger slash Gandalf to serve the secret fire which is something that we then later see in the Fellowship of the Ring with the Balrog so you could argue that there's links there but I think it's very easy in hindsight to say things as well as you're looking back from it but
JessicaHOST
I like it.
JessicaHOST
I love it.
Julia GoldingHOST
So, anyway, I think he's going to hold his weight.
Julia GoldingHOST
The cast, the new cast that I find odd is Simon Pegg doing the voice of the Balrog.
Julia GoldingHOST
Okay.
Jacob RennakerGUEST
Now,
Julia GoldingHOST
but he was also Scotty in the reboot of Star Trek.
Julia GoldingHOST
And he's also, of course, been in Mission Impossible in a more sort of serious role.
Julia GoldingHOST
So he has range, but it just seems odd also having him, I mean, good luck to him, but a talking Balrog, which he does, they do talk in, I think, The Silmarillion.
Julia GoldingHOST
I think they wrote a few lines, but it just seems, how is that going to work? Yeah.
Todd WoodGUEST
Okay.
Todd WoodGUEST
He could be talking, remember that time Gandalf fought the Balrog? Okay, sure, yeah.
Todd WoodGUEST
I can understand that might not be.
Todd WoodGUEST
But then you get Paul, and Paul comes in twice, Romans and 1 Corinthians, where he basically says, you know why Jesus died? Because Adam sinned and messed everything up.
Ryan DoesHOST
At number two, we have another very intimidating, very just I would say this someone I would not want to encounter in, say, a dark mine.
Ryan DoesHOST
At number two, we have Durin's Bane, the Balrog.
Ryan DoesHOST
Who is Durin's Bane? And I feel like if you look at the picture of him that I'm showing you right now, it's pretty self-explanatory.
Ryan DoesHOST
But Nick, what about the Balrog is so terrifying to you?
Nick PolkGUEST
Yeah, the Balrog is literally a demon.
Nick PolkGUEST
So originally the Balrog...
Nick PolkGUEST
So the Balrog is in the same category of being...
Nick PolkGUEST
Tier, yeah.
Reggie HillHOST
Gandalf's return is an enormous moment in the film.
Reggie HillHOST
I like how when they show Gandalf in the same scene that he was lost in the beginning where he's fighting the Balrog, he looks concerned when he drops off the bridge and says, "Fly, you fools." That is not a moment of fear, because we see him turn, and he's falling with determination.
Reggie HillHOST
He grabs his sword in midair, and he's going to work fighting the Balrog.
Reggie HillHOST
And one thing I want to point out, because it just makes me laugh: remember when he told Aragorn in the first film, "Swords are no more use here"? But what does Gandalf do? He beats the heck out of the Balrog with his sword over and over again.
Reggie HillHOST
So maybe he meant their swords are of no use anymore [laughs] because-
Isaiah BrownHOST
But hey, see, what you don't understand is that Gandalf's sword, it's en- it's enchanted.
Reggie HillHOST
But he doesn't seem to be more powerful, and the way they talk about him being Gandalf the White is very vague.
Reggie HillHOST
So it is a bit confusing.
86 more episodes mention Balrog.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.