Absolutely no place in the Sil does it give a number of Balrogs. Any other source info (other than maybe the Unfinished Tales) would be questionable information.
Everything seems to imply that there were a great many Balrogs, perhaps in the hundreds. Melkor seems to have corrputed the most Maia, most of these being fire spirits.
Although there is no basis for this, I always imagined that Melkor probably had as many Maiar as all of the other Valar put together. If each had 50-100 serving them, then Melkor could indeed have had about a thousand. Too bad the books are so vague.
-Cirdan / Maglor68
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