Does a child of Eru have flaming hair, wings of shadow and his body in flames? Don't think so.
And about the number of the Balrogs - there were certainly more than seven in the Silmarillion. The stories published in the Silmarillion were written long before Tolkien said that only seven balrogs ever existed, and I'm sure that in the Silm's stories there appear at least hundreds or perhaps even thousands of balrogs. If you're talking about Tolkien's later writings, then forget about the Silm. Or does somebody want to write the Silmarillion again?
[ June 07, 2003: Message edited by: Afrodal Fenyar ]
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