What Gandalf Saw Beneath Moria | Tolkien’s Nameless Things

Gandalf fell beneath Moria… and returned with a silence. When he spoke of the Balrog, the Endless Stair, and the battle on Zirakzigil, he described almost everything. But when he reached the deepest places under the world — the place where the Nameless Things gnaw at the roots of the earth — he stopped.