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Post by Amarië on Dec 29, 2003 13:46:31 GMT -5
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Post by Marigold Gamgee on Mar 4, 2004 17:45:46 GMT -5
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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Morgul
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Post by Morgul on Mar 17, 2004 3:14:29 GMT -5
Two words: 'Simile' and 'Metaphor'
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Post by Eladain on Mar 17, 2004 22:32:00 GMT -5
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. *pats himsef on shoulder for thinking of that all by himself*
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Post by Artanis Manmaiden on Nov 30, 2004 19:22:05 GMT -5
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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