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Originally Posted by Eönwë
This might be slightly off subject, but do Balrogs have genders? I mean, how do they reproduce? Or do they? I knnow TOlkien got rid of the ideas of the children of the Vala, but was it also Maiar?
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We are not told what the gender of each Balrog was, but they would each show the gender of their basic person. They did not reproduce as like the Valar, Maiar were Ainur, of the 'Angelic spirits' that were before Arda.
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I also think that if Gandalf would be allowed to show his true power (but then he would be Olorin), he would be more likely to kill the Balrog, but when an earthly body like Gandalf, fights a celestial body (A Maia like Durin's Bane), then the earthly body dies. But because Olorin was a Maia he didn't properly die (because Maiar can't die)
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When Gandalf fought Durin's Bane they were both Maia clothed in an 'earthly body'. So when they fought, each 'Killed' the other. That is the physical body of each was so damaged that the spirit could no longer keep it 'alive'. Gandalf did not recreate his own body but was sent back to a Repaired/Recreated body. The Balrog, it would seem, did not have the power to create a new body for himself.