Not Gandalf falling with the Balrog? Depths of Moria, then out on the mountain-top?
Promise ... 'I will always help you' - to Frodo?
It was your mention of wings that did it ....
But 'peril and enchantment' do suggest Angband ... or maybe the Girdle of Melian (or Galadriel's enchantment of Lothlorien).
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