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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal
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Although I haveto remain on the fence re: dragon 'beating'. But I suppose they could not cooked by Dragons breath so easily being flames of Udun themselves. Quote:
Now before someone goes and quotes the other lines about saying that all of his Balrogs were destroyed and only a few were left to hide themselves in caves... I will [point out that as JRRT got older he revised the number of blarogs down and that CJRT forgot or decided not to refelct this in his Silmarillion. So all this boils down to, there were not enough balrogs left at that point to constitute a real threat to the Army of valinor compared to the 'assault from the Air' of the dragons. The balrogs left [ 3 or 4] would have been insufficient to constitute an arial assault as I think there first and foremost job would be to govern the troops. There were simlpy not enough to act as arial shock troops in the way the dragons did. I just read the relevant passages in the 77 Silm and there is no mention of an "first assault upon the air, or something similar.'
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