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Re: Does the Balrog really have wings?
« Reply #15 on Dec 29, 2003, 1:46pm »
well... there was several things... most of which are listed in the thread right here: http://amari.proboards21.com/index.cgi?b....read=1065748644


or atleast most the disliking-ing ones...

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Re: Does the Balrog really have wings?
« Reply #16 on Mar 4, 2004, 5:45pm »
I used to think he most certainly did not have wings, but now I'm not so sure. But then, my first imagination of the Balrog wasn't very menacing, either. I think that the movie version is a lot scarier, so the last time I read it, I halfway imagined wings. I think I'll settle on wing-shaped shadow, though. Even though wings are menacing, wing-shaped shadow makes more sense and allows for a typically Tolkien use of figurative language.

In the movie the Balrog had wings because that's the way John Howe draws him. At least, that's my take on the matter.

I think that our particular Balrog didn't have wings, but I also think that it's possible for them to, because they're maia, so they really could take any shape they wanted, logically.
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Re: Does the Balrog really have wings?
« Reply #17 on Mar 17, 2004, 3:14am »
Two words: 'Simile' and 'Metaphor'
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Re: Does the Balrog really have wings?
« Reply #18 on Mar 17, 2004, 10:32pm »
Ah ha. but if you look at the movie, after the balrog falls into the water, and he and Gandalf are fighting, he dosen't have wings at all, just the fingerlike things. It appears to me that the "membranes" of the balrog's said "wings" in the movie, are nothing more than smoke, and dissolved in the water. :)

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Re: Does the Balrog really have wings?
« Reply #19 on Nov 30, 2004, 7:22pm »
Balrogs can fly as the Lord of the Balrogs flew from Thangorodrim or Angband when Lord Melkor released it. When considering the point as to why it didn't fly out of the abyss it was falling into you have to consider whether there was enough room for it to spread it wings.
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