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View Poll Results: Do balrogs have wings?
Yes 114 58.16%
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Old 10-15-2010, 07:31 AM   #27
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Only thing is I'm assured that Balrogs have wings but cannot fly.
A bit like an ostrich, wings but cannot fly. Having been stuck in the Dark Pit for a few thousand years, would they have become defunct or the Balrog had just forgotten he had them. Maybe this is what Tolkien what trying to tell us, they (the wings) had become shadows of their former selves.
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