My impression is, the winged balrog simply looks
cooler, and thus pro-winger camp does not want to give up on such a sweet dude
Giving a little twist to the thread here, let me invite you to follow the link of
Hookbill the Goomba's current signature:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ba/Balrogs.jpg
Nice joke, to my liking, but looking at it I've notices also a strange thing dangling behind both figurines, suspiciously resembling no less than a
tail!
Wings? Legs? Nope - tail!
I suppose it's tied up with wonderfully wrong 'winged theory' - as flying creature presumably would require some kind of tail for steering, but, gawks, whoever heard about a
tail on a balrog? Hang that PJ (not an appeal I usually issue, but
that was outrageous!
)