Balrogs ride Dragons in the elder texts which is something so cool that I think I’m going to explode, but yes, when they were more of them, they varied in size and shape so it wouldn’t be hundreds of Balrogs the size of Durin’s Bane, but just the thought of hundreds of them in any form and Gothmog would have been bigger than Durin’s Bane and I think I just probably freaked you out with all of that, but my point was you are right….Balrogs are cool.It's okay to dislike a theory but it's not okay to dislike a person because they don't agree with you, so please treat people with respect.įor more information, please read our in-depth policy on this rule.Įvidence makes for a good theory, this will be judged at the discretion of the mods. I think they, like any other species, would have greater and lesser examples and Durin’s Bane is a greater Balrog. Most of them were destroyed at the end of the First Age, and you are correct, Tolkien’s earlier texts had them as twice man-sized. The particular Balrog in FOTR was known as Durin’s Bane. They battled Feanor in Angband and were lead by the Lord of the Balrogs “Gothmog” which Jackson gave to the twisted pink orc in Return of the King. They were seduced by Melkor (Morgoth) and twisted into the form you see them traditionally portrayed. The Silmarillion calls them “scourges of fire”. Balrogs are Maiar essentially the same level of being as Gandalf and the rest of the Istari.
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