SPice for the Balrog-Wings Soup...(not seen this anywhere before) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Eurytus · 10-08-2003, 01:30 AM

I am new to this board so apologies if I am rehashing old ground but I always thought that the fact that the Balrog had physical wings (as opposed to wings of shadow) could be demonstrated as wrong by a look at the what we can calculate about the size of the Balrog and the size of the wings.
Basically the Balrog could not have been much beyond 14 feet tall and the wings would have been somewhere approaching 100 feet wide. The ratios don't work for them to be physical wings.

But wings of shadow, fine.

10-08-2003, 01:30 AM	#15
Eurytus Wight Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: England Posts: 179	I am new to this board so apologies if I am rehashing old ground but I always thought that the fact that the Balrog had physical wings (as opposed to wings of shadow) could be demonstrated as wrong by a look at the what we can calculate about the size of the Balrog and the size of the wings. Basically the Balrog could not have been much beyond 14 feet tall and the wings would have been somewhere approaching 100 feet wide. The ratios don't work for them to be physical wings. But wings of shadow, fine. __________________ "This is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story!" Lionel Hutz