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   From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net   
      
   In alt.fan.tolkien Steve Morrison  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:51:23 +0000, Sandman wrote:   
   >   
   >>> > > Stan Brown:   
   >>> > > Did he ever draw a picture of a Balrog, with or without its wig?   
   >>> >   
   >>> > Sandman:   
   >>> > If he had, would there have been such a controversy about it? :-D   
   >>>   
   >>> No, no, we do NOT want to restart the "did Balrogs have wigs"   
   >>> discussion...   
   >>   
   >> Pffft, we all know he did, this passage says it all:   
   >>   
   >>   "His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached   
   >>   out   
   >>    like two vast wigs"   
   >>   
   >> I can see it clearly! :-D   
   >   
   >   "Its streaming mane kindled, and blazed behind it."   
   >   
   > Clearly Balrogs don't really have wigs, only wigs of flame!   
      
   They have to wear wigs because they keep burning off their own hair.   
      
   --   
   F. Wayne Brown    
      
   Þæs ofereode, ðisses swa mæg.  ("That passed away, this also can.")   
      from "Deor," in the Exeter Book (folios 100r-100v)   
      
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