: In the Sil. Gorlim is made a wraith by Sauron.. would this have
: been a early version of a mogul knife he used to do this? Also
: Beren (is the best :o) ) met Gorlim. He came to Beren across
: Tarn Aeluin.. that is a lake.. Why did Gorlim in wraith form
: not share the ring-wraiths fear for water?? Do only
: ring-wraiths have the fear for water? hence the barrow-wrights
: and others would be quite happy to cross rivers etc?

Tolkien played with the idea of making the Ringwraiths afraid of water but he could never fully justify it, so he moved away from it.

I don't believe Gorlim's wraith was in Sauron's service. I think he was just delivering a message to Beren before leaving Middle-earth.

: Why is Gandalf grey, Radagast brown etc but Alatar and Pallando
: both have the same color.. the blue wizards.. why do the other
: three have there own colors? are the blue wizards "lesser
: wizards" so to speak?

Tolkien never explained the color scheme in any published writing. It seems to be implied that white is the color of the leader, since Gandalf became Gandalf the White and supplanted Saruman the White.

: Where did old man willow come from? was he one of Morgoth's
: "inventions"?

We don't know.

: Where did the Dweller of the pool come from? are the 2 related?
: was old man willow capturing frodo a coinsidence with him being
: a ring bearer? Was the dweller of the pool in contact with
: Sauron or Saruman and hence that is why he went for frodo? or
: is that another coinisidence? If it was would that possibly
: mean that the balrog was in contact with it? if it wasnt does
: that mean the balrog didn't know about it at all?

We don't know anything about the Watcher in the Water except that it was there.

In "The Hunt for the Ring" Tolkien wrote that the Lord of the Nazgul visited the Barrow-downs and aroused all the evil creatures in the area. His influence may have awakened Old Man Willow (Bombadil was surprised to find the Willow active) and the Barrow-wight was almost certainly acting on the Lord of the Nazgul's orders.

But the Ring itself could motivate evil creatures and stir them to action, even if their intentions were unclear to them. Tolkien attributes the attack on Isildur's company to the power of the One Ring in "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields".

: Where was the Balrog of Moria between the war of the Wrath and
: 1980 in which year it appears in Moria and slays Durin VI. I
: know it says that the "the Balrogs were destroyed, save some
: few that fled and hid themselves in caverns inaccessible at the
: roots of the earth." (Quenta Silmarillion) So was the balrog of
: Moria some how in one of the mines? and the dwarves dug
: it up? if so how the heck did it get there? Or was it sent in
: by the witch king (who went to Mordor that same year so passed
: by on the way from Angmar)? Or did Sauron send it? he was
: thrown out of Dol Guldur 80 yrs later so he could have been
: there when the Balrog entered Moria.

The Balrog was hidden in a chamber or cavern somewhere north of Khazad-dum, near a vein of mithril that the Dwarves eventually followed to his location. He would have been there since the ending of the War of Wrath. How he got there is not specified. He would not have served the Witch-king.

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