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But if the balrogs were afraid because Tuor had killed 5 of them, then if you remove the killing part, wouldn't that remove the fear factor that the balrogs had?
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Not necessariliy - they are afraid because "it sang like the rush of eagle's wings in the air and took death as it fell"; in other words they are afraid of the axe itself, because it is a great weapon.
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And if Gothmog was defeating Tuor in a definite way, why wouldn't a normal Balrog do the same. What would be the power difference between them?
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Well, by this logic the entire course of the narrative at this point would have to be changed, for this is where Tuor and Ecthelion are doing somewhat well against the Balrogs, which changes in the next paragraph.
Another thing I just noticed in looking over this section: we need to make the change
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for the brightness of {his} Ecthelion's sword cleft the iron of them and did hurt to their fire
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- since we eliminated his name in the previous phrase and the 'his' has no antecedent.