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There have been a few people who have weighed in on the issue in the thread but who have failed officially to cast their vote. I wonder if they are pretending to achieve a resolution and then losing their nerve when it comes to actually nailing their colours to the masthead, as it were, in the form of a vote. (Fordim)
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Professor, I'm one of them. I adamantly believe that they don't fly (after Morgoth's return, at the very least), but I'm still torn between the shadow-wings, or real wings made useless by something. And since the question is "Do Balrogs have Wings", I will not chip in a vote yet until I'm quite certain in the issue. So there.
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Mr. Underhill's thesis: It was a bias on part of Frodo and Gimli: they saw wings (which may be real or ephemeral), and they assumed flight. It's nature: I see cigarette, I think smoker.