What Actually Happened to Moria?

Gimli walks into Moria expecting a feast with his cousin. What the Fellowship finds is bones, a tomb, and a book that stops mid-sentence. This one covers what actually happened to the place: why Moria was never just a mine, the two separate disasters that emptied it (a thousand years apart), why Balin went back, what the book Gandalf reads out loud actually is, why Gimli didn't know, why Gandalf clearly did, and why there are Orcs living in a Dwarven city at all. Film-first as always. Book and lore context only where it explains what the films leave vague. LOTR Explained Simply — Lord of the Rings explained for people who watched the films and still have questions. 0:00 The welcome that isn't 0:54 Not just a mine 1:38 The first disaster 2:44 Why Balin went back 3:32 The second disaster 4:47 Why didn't Gimli know? 5:25 Why Gandalf was worried 6:17 Why are there Orcs? 7:00 Two ruins, one inside the other