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Originally Posted by Morthoron
I don't believe Gandalf would utter anything other than "You shall not pass!" It is formal, and it is almost biblical in intonation (THOU SHALT NOT!).
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Would the inconvenient fact that what he actually said was "You cannot pass" get in the way of this belief?
You do have a point about the oddity of speaking Westron to the Balrog. But for some reason I have the feeling that a creature like the Balrog would have understood Gandalf's words, no matter what language he used.