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I think you are making a false equivalency.
Being able to defeat the conqueror of a third party, does not automatically make one capable of defeating that third party personally.
For example let's consider a Heavy tank.
Any number of troops with light arms would probably be defeated by a tiny tank crew, equipped as they are with heavy armament (and presumably a huge amount of ammunition.)
However 1 solider with a suitable anti-tank missile has a fair chance of emerging victorious.
That same soldier is going to be utterly vanquished by a relative small number of troops armed with only light weaponry.
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Talking about Balrogs, Gandalf and huge potential Dwarf armies we are ignoring the magic factor.
The fact is that Balrogs are massively sorcerously equipped, being as they are, fallen Maiar. I doubt that there was any Dwarf, or Dwarf cadre even remotely equipped to counter such power.
Consider that the only people we know of, who have been capable of effective combat with Balrogs, prior to Gandalf, were spectacularly powerful Eldar. Even 'run of the mill' first age or related Elves were no match for Balrogs.
A small army of Balrogs could drive off Ungoliant, who in her turn had totally cowed, and albeitly reduced, Morgoth - a Valar.
Further we have little evidence that Dwarf weaponry could even significantly harm a Balrog. Consider that Gandalf was hewing away at the Balrog with Turgon's own sword (a masterpiece of elven craft of a passed age, and magic to boot), and it wasn't exactly making short work of Mr Balrog.
Now Gandalf can counter the Balrog's sorcery, being internally, a Maiar himself. He then can meet it on 'equal' terms and has the right sword for the job.
However in mortal guise Gandalf is indeed going to be arrow or axe fodder for a huge army of Dwarves, and doesn't appear to be equipped with the sort of mass combat magic that could take out a Dwarven army. So just as the soldier with the ATM, he (or Saruman) is going to be in a tight spot faced with such foes.
So there we are:
The Balrog is a tank.
Gandalf is a soldier with an Anti-Tank Missile.
A Dwarf Army is a battalion of light infantry.
Solved :P
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