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Originally Posted by Juicy-Sweet
This means that ONE Balrog can beat 200 000 dwarves in combat - something I find a bit crazy - and it has some other implications.
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I don't think that's a valid interpretation. I have little doubt that a number of that magnitude
could destroy a Balrog's physical body, but one must consider that fear factor it must have had, as well as the Dwarves' ignorance of what they were even facing. Not knowing one's enemy is a terrible drawback, and you have to also keep in mind that a large number of Dwarves, certainly at least many hundreds, were driven from Erebor by a single dragon, a creature they
did know well.
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Originally Posted by Juicy-Sweet
Saruman is stronger than Gandalf (the Grey), as he managed to dominate him and improsion him in Orthanc, as well as being his master etc.
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Saruman's ability to imprison Gandalf to my mind is merely indicative of the
authority he'd been given as the head of the Order, not necessarily of a superiority of innate power.
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Originally Posted by Juicy-Sweet
Alternatively, we can lower the population of Moria to something more easy to handle, like 10 000. And assume the Balrog used a sort of hit-and-run tactics, killing them in small isolated groups.
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I think that's reasonable. Moria would hardly have been suited to combat involving hundreds
inside the mines anyway; its defenses seem to have been justifiably geared toward repelling invaders. They wouldn't have been prepared for something like the Balrog appearing suddenly inside .