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Originally Posted by Eönwë
Maybe that's the real reason Sauron moved to Mordor originally- he found a Balrog. That's what he's hiding in Mordor, not the thousands of orcs.
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Only a note for interest to this - the Balrog of Moria was originally meant to be sent there by Sauron (in the early concepts of LotR). (I can imagine that being also a kind of remains of Tolkien's "old thinking" when he thought that simply balrogs were more common in M-E - as you can see in the passages mentioned in the posts above. It may be that only later he slowly came to the revision "okay, there shouldn't be that many of them".)
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