Were Balrogs winged?

[HerenIstarion]

Shade of Carn Dûm
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I'm dragging in citations from my own post, and don't you dare to accuse me of selfplagiarizm!

Then Thorondor bore up Glorfindel's body out of the abyss, the same abyss, mind you where

So was not an abyss too narrow a place for a greatest of the eagles? Or was he a size of, say, chickenhawk and Glorfindel that of a chicken? Does anyone implies that Thorondor was mountainclimber in disguise who climbed down the abyss with a rope, put the rest of Glorfindel into a bag and climbed back? They are wrong wrong wrong

Taken from the post #11 from One Hand Tied Behind Their Backs (by Mithadan)

...but what they are really like, and what lies beyond them, only those can say who have climbed them...