(Laughter) (Applause) I regendered a couple of the main characters, and I added new scenes, like one where a female hobbit devised a clever plan to foil the Balrog, a monster who caused the death of one of my favorite characters.
Balrogs/ˈbælrɒɡz/ are fictional creatures who appear in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Such creatures first appeared in print in his novel The Lord of the Rings, where the Fellowship of the Ring encounter one known as Durin's Bane in the Mines of Moria. Balrogs figured in Tolkien's earlier writings that appeared posthumously in The Silmarillion and other books.