| | Do Balrogs have wings, and can they fly? (The Truth About Balrogs, Vol. 6) |
 | | The passage in The Silmarillion was apparently edited from the original text given in Morgoth's Ring, though it is possible that there was another closely related version of the passage used in The Silmarillion. |
 | | As with the first passage the argument is that this should be read to say that the Balrog flew away from Thangorodrim and leave it at that. |
 | | It seems clear that Tolkien did not intend movement through the air in any of these latter quotations, and thus that the Balrog 'flying from Thangorodrim' might well have referred to the fact of it's escape rather than the mode. |
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