Do Balrogs Have Wings?

[Lalwendë]

Yeah, but just look at that emblem with the big Pelican on it. It's a bird, so Gimli is also...a bird.

(love it by the way!)

OK, so you see this ruddy huge winged shadow in the dim light of Moria and wet your (not literally, 'your') Dwarf pants with fear. Then see it's not got wings, and it's slightly more comforting but you don't, frankly, care as long as you get outta there; in fact you don't hang around for long enough to really examine said beastie, you just get an impression of it, but the main one is the first view, with wings, that caused you to wet yer Dwarf britches. Then later you see a big winged shadow in the sky and immediately think "%$£*! It's like that thing I thought I saw in Moria!"

Our Girli of course later admits to Legolass (explains his fears that he displayed when he went "eeek!" and grabbed Pippin's hand) that he thought it was that Big Scary Shadow again. All that's missing really is Boromir and Aragorn acting like the snidey big brothers, taunting him and saying "Hey! Did the boogie man scare you?"