Do you keep in mind the primary time you witnessed the Balrog? I do. First, a distant flicker, an orange hue cascading down the pillars deep inside Moria. Then, a rumble, deep and guttural. A pan to Gandalf’s face because it dawns on him simply what has awoken: “This foe is past any of you.”
It would sound foolish to say a few keycap, however this Balrog spacebar from Drop someway manages to seize and replicate a level of the fearful awe that
I felt upon seeing the LOTR demon for the primary time. Because of its 3D-esque design, it seems just like the flame of Udûn is genuinely current contained in the keycap.
Though, maybe diminishing from the entire “awe” facet, I suppose this may make for a miniaturised Balrog, which I’d hesitatingly name form of cute, in that angry-but-ineffectual small pet form of method.
The $49 (down from $65) buy will not simply get you the fantastic Artisan spacebar, nonetheless. You additionally get an Artisan Mithrandir (Gandalf) keycap, pipe in hand. The 2 make for fairly a duo—mild vs darkish, and all that.
It is an particularly apt combo, truly. For these unaware, Balrogs are basically the identical form of being as Gandalf. Each are Maiar, that are form of like angels in Center Earth lore, however Balrogs are those who had been corrupted by Morgoth.
This is not the primary time Drop’s traveled to Center Earth for its keycaps, both. It is beforehand designed and produced Rohan-themed LOTR keycaps, as an example. On the time, our Andy referred to as these “basically little LOTR dioramas encased in resin”, and it seems like Drop’s taken this strategy once more with the Gandalf keycap, and the Balrog one has greater than a touch of 3D resin, too.
I need to say, too, there could be one thing extremely cathartic about smashing the Balrog’s head in with my thumb. It would make up for a number of the residual trauma of seven-year-old me witnessing, you recognize, what the Balrog did (I do not even need to speak about it).
I simply fear that if I purchased these I might then should deck out the remainder of my keyboard with LOTR-inspired keycaps. I do not know if I may go half-hog. Come to think about it, although, that does not sound like such a nasty thought in any respect. When’s pay day, once more?