Says top Tolkien expert
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Scarlett and Ironclad wrote:Campermon,...a middle aged, middle class, Guardian reading, dad of four, knackered hippy, woolly jumper wearing wino and science teacher.
Weaver wrote:Both the Silmarillion and The Two Towers clearly describe balrog wings.
There is more evidentiary support for balrogs with wings than there is for angles with wings - more than there is for angles, in fact, since we know who the author was.
Macdoc wrote:Tis a contingent being...
enjoyable and reasonably short tale of the hobbit
jaydot wrote:i've forgotten what balrogs are. this is probably because, unlike the enjoyable and reasonably short tale of the hobbit, the lord of the rings is a great long yawn.
Balrogs were the Valaraucar (Quenya; vala "power" + rauco "monster"), spirits of the Maiar that were seduced and corrupted by Melkor to his service. There were never more than seven, according to Tolkien's son, but in earlier versions of Tolkien's writings there are references to entire armies of Balrogs. Gothmog was their captain during the 1st Age.
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