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Is there a mythological Balrog?
--63.65.45.102 19:25, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No, unlike 'orc', 'troll', 'warg', 'ent', et cetera the term 'balrog' was not something Tolkien borrowed and re-interpreted from earlier mythology, but rather something which he constructed himself. --CBD 17:47, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
