Balrog

In the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, the Balrogs (Sindarin for “Demons of Power”), are monsters rather astonishing and difficult to describe, made shade and of flame, viscous, enormous, holding up a sword of fire and a whip with multiple thin straps. They are divine race of Maiar from which are resulting also Gandalf, Sauron and Melian.

When the Valar took the fortress of Melkor, Utumno, Balrogs, terrified, took refuge in the ruins of Angband, from where they ran to help their Master when this one was attacked by Ungoliant. The Elfe S met for the first time Balrogs during the Battle under the Stars (Dagor-nuin-Giliath), where Fëanor was killed by Gothmog, Seigneur of Balrogs. They play then an important role in the continuation of the First Age, for example during the fall of Gondolin, following which Balrog was killed by the Elfe Glorfindel. During the Third Age, the Nain S awoke Balrog by undermining the Mithril Khazad-dûm and were thus driven out of these mines. This Balrog was killed by Gandalf during the Guerre of the Ring.

If, in the first texts concerning the Ground of the Medium, Balrogs seem to be imagined like existing in great number, Tolkien reconsidered this idea later: in the years 1950, he wrote in a note that the number of Balrogs to have existed did not exceed seven ( Morgoth' S Ring , p. 80). One however can, d´après the reading of Silmarillion to think that their number was slightly higher (around fifty approximately).

Balrogs are a recurring subject of polemic at the tolkiendili , in particular the existence or not of their wings, the description which Tolkien of Balrog of Moria letting makes plane ambiguity.

Their large lord names Gothmog. He is the murderer many large princes elves: thus it was him which killed Feanor, the greatest Elf d´Arda, but also Fingon its nephew and Echtelion which fought it and killed it before succumbing to its wounds.

“ At that time, it '' was not alone, because its size had attracted with him many Maiar which remained with him until in darkness, and others which it had taken with its service corruption, the lie, perfidious present. Most frightening of these spirits were Valaraukar, the plagues devastators which one calls on the Earth of the Medium Balrogs, demons of the fear. ” ( Silmarillion )

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Homonymy

Balrog is an imaginary character of the series of video game Street Fighter, representing a Boxe ur Afro-American. Nevertheless, in the Japanese versions of the play, Balrog is a Spanish assassin armed with a claw and carrying a mask lasting the engagements so that a bad blow does not come to deteriorate its beauty. This same combatant is called Vega in the Western versions of the play, which can lend to confusion.

In the roleplay of the Grounds of Legend, the Balrog was a monster described in the supplement the Creatures of the Shade . It was about the most powerful monster of the play with a class of monster of 25.

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