Balrogs, yet again.

[Elenhin]

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Re: Ad: Balrogs, yet again.

I am, of course, not suggesting fireballs or lightnings (in the fashion of D&amp;D-style fantasy writers) but other - fire-related -powers than just healing and preservation.

It seems to me that Gandalf was using his Ring very differently than Elrond and Galadriel. They were helping their communities to fight the growing world-weariness, but Gandalf didn't have any such use for his Ring as he didn't stay in any place for a long time. Therefore, if the Ring really was so significant as the story claims, I believe that the Ring must have something to do with Gandalf's &quot;magic powers&quot; (when talking about Middle-Earth, &quot;magic&quot; isn't exactly the right word I think - it has nasty connections to D&amp;D-style magic which has nothing to do with Tolkien) and especially his speciality in handling fire.

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