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Demonic Gophers

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Re: For your viewing pleasure...
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2009, 02:05:19 pm »
Quote from: Poil on January 10, 2009, 11:45:46 am
Why would a creature have wings if it can't fly? Because it looks cool. ;)
Among other reasons.
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« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2009, 02:45:57 pm »
Thank you for the mental image of balrogs swimming through the antarctic ocean eating fish.
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« Reply #17 on: January 10, 2009, 02:57:37 pm »
I shall add [FLIER] posthaste.
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« Reply #18 on: January 10, 2009, 03:11:38 pm »
Quote from: Poil on January 10, 2009, 02:45:57 pm
Thank you for the mental image of balrogs swimming through the antarctic ocean eating fish.

Glad to help.
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« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2009, 08:45:14 am »
They DO have wings. They just don't work. They're just to make them look more scary.

Yes, damn you , I HAVE read LOTR and the the simarillion.

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« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2009, 10:38:44 am »
Oh, I've got a Balrog a year ago... It was my middle-earth mod. Let's see if I can get it.

Ok, it was almost the same, but mine had also [NOEXERT] tag, you may consider to add it. Also it dropped ashes, but yours drops a statue, which is way cool.

Common balrog should be of size 16 or 18. Not 30! Size 30 = ~2-3 sizes of a huge dragon like Smaug.

Also why does your balrog have [NATURAL] tag?!!! Do you want it to walk around eating grass and talking with elves?!

Also, they don't usually fly, so FLIER is a bit out of place.

Why can't your balrog talk? They were twisted maiar but I think they had a language...

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« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2009, 11:24:36 am »
I have failed at this thread... miserably.
please leave this thread, leave me to my shame.
« Last Edit: January 12, 2009, 11:28:26 am by Splendiferous »
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Re: For your viewing pleasure...
« Reply #22 on: January 12, 2009, 12:00:43 pm »
Quote from: Splendiferous on January 12, 2009, 11:24:36 am
I have failed at this thread... miserably.
please leave this thread, leave me to my shame.

 Just don't start living in a cave and eating raw fish while fondling a computer with DF on it.
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« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2009, 05:00:39 pm »
Quote from: Splendiferous on January 12, 2009, 11:24:36 am
I have failed at this thread... miserably.
please leave this thread, leave me to my shame.

Lol, the only failure here is the fact that somehow the balrog wings argument started in the DF forum.  Honestly, balrogs are awesome, but could benefit so much by waiting for the next release.  I don't think it's worthwhile to just have an arbitrary huge damblock because the creature is scary and awesome.  Frequently in the Silmarillion were balrogs killed.  Durin's Bane, killed by Gandalf in the Fellowship of the Ring is not intended to be a particularly powerful balrog, even.  In any case, they do not single-handedly spell doom for whatever they come across.

We encourage the establishment of awesomeness and look forward to further incarnations of these fiery maiar.
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Re: For your viewing pleasure...
« Reply #24 on: January 12, 2009, 07:26:29 pm »
Quote from: LumenPlacidum on January 12, 2009, 05:00:39 pm
Frequently in the Silmarillion were balrogs killed.
I'm not sure about this but i think,in the silmarillion, only the deaths of two balrogs were mentioned specifically. Both were killed by elves.

I found another link with some good information on Pro/Anti wingism:http://www.glyphweb.com/Arda/b/balrogs.html
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« Reply #25 on: January 12, 2009, 07:32:44 pm »
Okay, final version... unless anyone else has something to add?
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« Reply #26 on: January 12, 2009, 10:33:44 pm »
Actually, if I recall, the question of whether balrogs actually had wings, or were simply surrounded by flickering, wing-like shadows, was never firmly resolved before Tolkien's death.
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« Reply #27 on: January 12, 2009, 11:00:33 pm »
well... in the movie's, when he's fighting gandalf he falls rather than flies.

good enough for me.
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« Reply #28 on: January 12, 2009, 11:13:52 pm »
Wait a minute what are we talking about here?

Balrog or Balrog?
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« Reply #29 on: January 13, 2009, 02:32:46 am »
Quote from: Creamcorn on January 12, 2009, 11:13:52 pm
Wait a minute what are we talking about here?

Balrog or Balrog?

sorry, creamcorn, I don't think I follow
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