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   From: mr@sandman.net   
      
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    Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
      
   > >> /Letters/ is what happened to several of those controversies, and   
   > >> HoME is what happened to the rest. :-)   
   > >   
   > > Apart from, of course, Balrog wings :-D   
   >   
   > And seemingly English professors happened to that most infamous of   
   > debates ;-)  (I've seen a few professors of English argue that the   
   > passage in question cannot, in proper English, imply any kind of actual   
   > wings -- whether of flesh and blood or some immaterial shadow-stuff.)   
   >   
   > Seriuosly, though, it seems that everybody eventually just got fed up   
   > with that discussion (I've been told that it had been going on at least   
   > since the eighties, though it obviously didn't hit the on-line fora   
   > until much later).   
      
   Myself, I subscribe to the conclusion that Balrogs had wings and could   
   fly after 1940. Mostly because I think a winged Balrog is cooler, and   
   it requires less "interpretation" of the source material :)   
      
      
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