Se você encontrar um balrog da morte esmagado na lateral de uma montanha desmoronando, provavelmente não é uma boa idéia verificar se ele e a parte responsável por matá-lo estão realmente mortos . Narya estaria segura perto do pico, exatamente onde Gandalf a deixou abruptamente. Além disso, Gandalf acredita que não houve testemunhas.
'There upon Celebdil was a lonely window in the snow, and before it lay
a narrow space, a dizzy eyrie above the mists of the world. The sun shone
fiercely there, but all below was wrapped in cloud. Out he sprang, and even
as I came behind, he burst into new flame. There was none to see, or perhaps
in after ages songs would still be sung of the Battle of the Peak.' Suddenly
Gandalf laughed. 'But what would they say in song? Those that looked up from
afar thought that the mountain was crowned with storm. Thunder they heard,
and lightning, they said, smote upon Celebdil, and leaped back broken into
tongues of fire. Is not that enough? A great smoke rose about us, vapour and
steam. Ice fell like rain. I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high
place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin. Then
darkness took me; and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far
on roads that I will not tell.