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--- lb:legendarium [2025-08-25 17:19:16] – [Trivilinks] ninjasr
+++ lb:legendarium [2025-09-28 08:27:16] (current) – [Do the elves of Valinor know what's happening?] ninjasr
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 I think it //would// be possible to construct an internally consistent canon (and for fanfiction reasons, I'm thinking of doing exactly that) but there isn't really a need to. And, let's be honest, at that point it isn't //Tolkien’s// Legendarium anymore.
+==== Do Balrogs have wings? ====
+I won't really comment on this too much since it's been done to death...but I find it interesting that nobody seems to consider the following possibility: //The Balrogs have wings but can’t fly.//
+I noticed that most arguments are implicitly focused on whether or not Balrogs can fly...when, to me, it seems most obvious that the Balrogs //do// have wings...but that //doesn't// mean they can fly. In fact, I think they can’t fly.
+Why would a creature have wings if they can’t fly? See any number of flightless birds for your answer.
 ==== Do elves need to eat? ====
 I'm writing this quickly since it came to mind. I think that the consensus is that elves //don't need to eat// and won't die of starvation, but I'll suggest something else.
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 When Eärendil and Elwing reach Valinor, Eärendil wanders off alone to find someone to plead his case to((:fn:>As a side note, I do find it a little funny that Eärendil has to wander the empty streets because he happened to reach Valinor while they were having a festival.)) Elwing waits around, but then gets lonely. So she starts wandering around until she meets some Teleri, who are surprised to see her.\\
-She and they talk, during which she explains many of the things that happened in Middle-Earth – and it's here where my interest was piqued – they were “filled with pity and wonder” – which implies they didn't know what was going on.
+She and they talk, during which she explains many of the things that happened in Middle-Earth – and it's here where my interest was piqued – they were <q>“filled with pity and wonder”</q> – which implies they didn't know what was going on.
 Whether the elves of Valinor know about the events in Middle-Earth or not makes a big difference, though I won't elaborate for a while.