: Built during the Second Age to facilitate trade with the Elves of Eregion. It is famous for its Elven-made doors visible only by moonlight and opening to the password "Mellon" (friend).
: This priceless metal was light as a feather but harder than tempered steel, and Moria was its only known source in Middle-earth. Khazad-dГ»m
Dwarves mining deep for Mithril accidentally awoke a (a demon of the ancient world). The Balrog slew King Durin VI and his son Náin I. : Built during the Second Age to facilitate
The city is a vast, multi-tiered underground metropolis spanning the width of the Misty Mountains. led the Dwarves back to Khazad-dûm.
Centuries after the War of the Ring, led the Dwarves back to Khazad-dûm.