July 7, 2002

The Balrog Has Wings... Nuff Said
Smaug

In light of this never-ending debate, allow me to quote directly from the book where it says "suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall." Hmm... Did you notice that? It didn't say 'it's wing like thingies.' It's right there in black and white. If you really want I can have a page number for this reference, yet I would hope that most of us would do the proper research before actually attempting a debate on a topic that is obviously redundant. The fact is, that Tolkien's Balrog has wings. How many times must this be brought up? Honestly, what about intelligence? I think that the Balrog is smarter than some of us who are writing in this forum :) No offense intended. I hope we can move onto something more legit now.

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