still though, I seem to recall it saying that more than one balrog (Gandalf's Balrog) escaped the war of wrath and hid in the bowels of the earth. So, even if there were 50 or a thousand, there still could have been balrogs hidden in the east or near Utumno. I haven't read the lost tales, so I must have heard the number seven in Unfinished tales or The Silm, anyhow, it gives a reason for The Ithryn Luins disappearence.
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