Thread: Balrog Tatics
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Old 03-03-2003, 06:31 PM   #31
Voralphion
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Of course, it can't possibly be an entirely accurate account of Ecthelion dragging him down, if the Balrog was twenty or more feet tall
Who's to say that the balrog was twenty or more feet tall. Where does it say anything about the size of a balrog. I know in the movie it is shown as a giant demon shaped creature, but in LOTR it says the balrog was possibly man shape. I don't believe that balrogs were giant but they were perhaps a little taller than a man or elf about 7 or 8 feet tall.
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