Were Balrogs winged?

[Zoe]

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/onering.jpg" align=absmiddle> Pointy ears

But couldn't it have been that elves had 'normal' ears? After all, Tolkien had already transformed the idea of an elf from a pixie sitting on a toadstool to that of the firstborn, noble and proud.

Or is there some text which rules out that idea?

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