SPice for the Balrog-Wings Soup...(not seen this anywhere before)

[Secret Fire]

the "almsot mythic prehistory" being discovered of the time of the Dinosaurs was marvelous and fascinating. Anyway, seeing as he beleived, and was impressed by, prehistoric creatures, he must have beleived the wolrd to be ancient (unlike what the Bible says: hence the reason he couldn't have been a literal Old Testament guy).

What do you mean? Dinosaurs are in the Bible and Christians believe that the earth is old enough to have contained these animals at some point in our history and they died out. The world is ancient, but fossils aren't exactly as old as the carbon dating would suggest (I figured out the physics once, but I won't bore you here) there are too many variables and assumptions to definitively place a fossil at a certain age. As for the Balrog wing controversy, the balrog at least in Khazad Dum had shaddow spreading like wings, but this does not rule out any other balrogs from having wings, especially since maia could take any form they desired.

[ October 09, 2003: Message edited by: Secret Fire ]