As you wish
Agan.
Treatise on were-wolvery
This matter has troubled this almighty, powerful, exemplar Council of excellency since the dawn of time. This is truly why I thought I was summoned to this great and wise council, not to go gallobantering around, killing fellow council members but looking for werewolves. We know everything there is to know about Werewolves, yet we can't seem to find and kill them. So, now that we are in a dire situation that is the most dire. Let me begin.
There are two forms of
werewolfus lupinius. The traditional werewolves of legend. These are humans for approximately 27 days of the month. But the day of the full moon, and the day before, and the day after, these humans transform into hairy, fanged, clawed, and beastly monstrosities called, werewolves. There is also the werewolves of Melkor's creation. Melkor sends evil spirits to inhabit the body of wolves, making them almost like superduper wolves, and really really powerful. The werewolves haunting this council seem to be even more deadly, since they are some strange hybrid of the legendary werewolves and evil spirits in bodies of wolves. Since, these werewolves do not need the full moon to transform, they appear to be able to mutate during the night.
And during the night, their animalistic instincts are incontrollable. They must feed. They must eat and only the blood of humans will satisfy their curse. If you can really say they are truly ever "satisfied." For each night they must always eat, it is never enough. Once they are through with one group of people, they will move on. They always move on, unless we can stop them. So, how do you stop them?
1. Pure Silver. This supposedly works the best, although I've never tried it and I have yet to encounter a werewolf. I have no idea how effective pure silver would work.
2. A vampire bodyguard. Werewolves hate vampires and vice versa. If you have vampire bodyguards the werewolves will most likely leave you alone. Werewolves desire those they call the "hot ones," vampires are "cold ones."
Preferably, 1 + 2 work the best. That is if you have a vampire body guard, who then is equipped with pure silver weapons. This way if the werewolves do dare attack you, your vampire body guards could kill them.
3. Killing the host body.
This option is the most difficult to perform, because it's almost like a blind witch hunt. Those fo us who are not werewolves, do not transform at night, we go to sleep. So, the only way we can kill them (if 1 and 2 are not viable options) is during the Day, when these werewolves are actually back in their human form. It's the most difficult because they leave no trace to their night transformations. It just happens spontaneously each and every night. It's not like we can go into
Nessa's room and find wolf hairs all over the bed (although I bet you would). And you can't demand
Agan open her mouth to check the size of her fangs. Everyone knows she has large, pointy fangs (and long long claws), anyway.
In fact. Did I ever tell you the time
Agan scratched me with her claws? Granted I actually asked her to because I wondered what was a better at scratching, bear claws or
Agan's. I think Agan's probably worked out the best, judging solely from memory and how well they scratched the itch on my arm.
Thus this is the conundrum we are in. 4 wolves remaining, 1 person on their side, and I don't know who ever else is left trying to lynch them. Decisions decisions.
I hope this has been a most helpful and beneficial post of my usual standards. I would hate to be a complete obstructionist for this whole council, but we all have a part to play, eh?
Now we get to the topic of Balrog's wings. Since we all know that Balrogs DO have wings. Sir JRR Tolkien tells us this, the question is are they literal or figuritive wings? If literal, are they functional in flight or serve another purpose? The only reason to have wings is for flight. Seriously, penguins and emus should all just not exist because they defy the my laws saying wings are only useful in flight. Sorry,
Lommy, but it's true. So, if the Balrog had literal wings he'd have them for flight. However, all Balrogs who have died have fallen from great heights, and been killed by falling from tall places. This means Balrogs obviously can't fly, or they wouldn't just keep falling and killing themselves. In conclusion, Balrogs must have metaphorical wings. Yes? No. No. They have metaphorical wings of shadow. Shadow being the key word. Shadows have no physical presense, they have no aerodynamic ability. Thus wings of shadow are not very useful for flying, but if they were not wings of shadow then the Balrog would be able to fly. And there it is, Balrogs have literal wings of shadow.
++Nessa