Please lets not turn this into a wing discussion. We're discussing the ccuracy of the Balrog in the movies EXCEPT for whether it had wings or not.
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The Balrog of Moria, to me, was always darker, more sinister. Not beastlike at all, but almost...noble, in an evil kind of way. Proud. And I think one of its most terrifying qualities was its assured silence. No threats, no bad guy wit, just a purely dark being with a countenance so stark and devoid of any kind of 'nonsense' that it chilled me more than any other creature in Tolkien's writings.
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I also felt this. I imagined it as man high, with no clear form but a shadow instead. I imagined the shadow as the centre of the Balrog, and flames all around it (however, I have just read somewhere in HoME that its the other way round - inside of fire, outside of shadow). Also, it's silence, as Obluquy mentioned. I never thought about it before, but in my mind that did make it extremely powerful. Also, I imagined it very confidently walking up to the bridge, knowing nothing could go wrong. This also made it seem powerful.
Found the quote. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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These were the first made of his creatures: their hearts were of fire, but they were cloaked in darkness, and terror went before them...
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HoME 10, Morgoth's Ring, Page 159 Paragraph One, Lines 9-11 (Hardback edition).
Therefore, both my idea of it
and the movie were wrong, because the Balrogs fire was actually inside it, and the shadow outside.