Since you wing fans haven't produced any evidence for yourself, I will
I found this when looking up Balrogs in the Appendixes of the LOTR.
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Thus they roused from sleep a thing of terror that, flying from Thangorodrim, had lain hidden at the foundations....
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I think that if Tolkien had meant
fleeing he would have used that word instead of flying.
Since I now have conflicting good arguements for both sides, I will withdraw myself from this debate, no longer convinced that they don't have wings, but not quite able to say they do.
--Finduilas--