Mental picture of the balrogs?

[Gilthalion]

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Re: My mental picture...

Got to admit that the demon at the end of FANTASIA does it for me, too. (With wings! Not real wings, but like a swirling cape of darkness!)

I suppose it is possible that the balrogs were winged...

Like the dodo, or the moa, or the ostrich, or the emu, it could not use its wings to fly out of the chasm. Perhaps it only used them to fan itself...

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