Could a Dwarf melee with a Balrog?

[CSteefel]

Originally Posted by Gordis

I didn't mean Frodo saw the nazgul unveiled in the Spirit World again. But Frodo's senses became sharpened by the Morgul wound. The feeling of unnatural cold and the pain in his wound - that was how he recognised a nazgul.

Gimli was the only one who thought of a Balrog. Why? perhaps Durin's Bane was a personification of his fear of the Otherworld. Yet he had seen and "felt" a nazgul -the messenger who spoke with Dain.


Who said Aragorn was not afraid of the Balrog? I guess not a creature but a Vala could boast of having no fear of Balrogs.

I can see that the wound might have contributed importantly here, but I still think that it was also the numerous other encounters with the Nazgul, beginning in the Shire itself. To me this is still different from the random encounter with a Nazgul, as Gimli would have experienced if he happened to be there...

Otherwise, I was responding to Bgreg, who said that Aragorn showed no fear...

[BGreg]

Yes, I said Aragorn showed no fear. I didn't say he didn't have any fear. I am sure he did fear, because apparently everyone who saw the Balrog (and I mean Dain too) were very much afraid.

But the story is written from Frodo's perspective, right? So maybe he just didn't notice the fear on Aragorn's face.