** LOTR - Gandalf the Gray has fallen

Gandalf falls in his battle with the Balrog.
...Long time I fell, and he fell with me. His fire was about me, and I was burned. Then we plunged into the deep water and all was dark....There I came at last, to the uttermost foundations of stone. He was with me still. His fire was quenched, but now he was a thing of slime, stronger than a strangling snake...