Minor Battles in The Lord of The Rings - Battle of The Peak - in Adaptations

In Adaptations

In the opening scene of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Gandalf is shown falling down the vast chasm in Moria after the Balrog, catching Glamdring in mid-flight then hacking at his falling enemy several times. The pair fall for nearly a minute locked in a free-fall battle until landing in the great subterranean lake beneath Moria. Their following battle and chase up the Endless Stair is not shown; however, the climax of their fight on the Silvertine is. Gandalf ducks a swipe from the Balrog and kills it with a stab from a lightning-charged Glamdring. It tumbles over the edge of the cliff and smashes into the mountainside, extinguished. This detail is not found in the text, where Gandalf only "throws down" the Balrog.