Balrogs DO have wings!!!

[Elenhin]

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Re: Shadow

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> I’ve never quite been able to understand what people who hew to this theory picture when they think of a Balrog. If I were to see a Balrog, would it look like a walking black cloud (sort of like Pig-Pen from Peanuts only bigger, meaner, and more stinky)? That sort of vision is no more authoritatively established than wings are.<hr></blockquote>

Quite much in the same way as they picture Ungoliant - both are described as having shadows and darkness about them.

And as others have stated, the Balrog's &quot;shadow-cloak&quot; is confirmed - it is referred to in the Silmarillion and LotR many times.

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew.<hr></blockquote>

That is one more reference to the dark aura of the Balrog. Sure it becomes darker if a fire is put out - but then it would have been &quot;The fire in it seemed to die, and the darkness grew&quot;, not &quot; but the darkness grew&quot;.

And just by coincidence, the description of Balrogs cloaked in shadow appeared in Silmarillion just after Tolkien had written the final version of LotR's Moria sequence.

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