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-Umaiar. I think he had up to 100 balrogs during the Year of the Trees. It was said after Utumno were destroyed, many of his creatures went into hiding. So that implies that dozen balrogs survived the onslaught of the Valar.
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There is a note somewhere in HME where Tolkien wrote that there were at most 8 Balrogs total.
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