Ong the way you got the eyes and mouth to seem to emit light is so cool! This looks incredible

R/trypophobia

They also have a dumptruck ass but that's in the appendices.

It would be far more unsettling if it matched lighting of the room, too light and yellow

They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

It's a great painting but am I the only person who initially wondered why the Balrog also served the OP, Ink and Acrylic as well as Morgoth?

> It would have been very advantageous for Balrogs to have flight, yet they never fly.

They might've flown when they rescued Morgoth from Ungoliant, seeing as they were still very far from Angband when they heard his cries and still managed to fend of Ungoliant before she could take the Silmarils.

> and in no other instance in the legendarium do they have wings,

It doesn't say they don't have wings though.

>It would have been very advantageous for Balrogs to have flight, yet they never fly.

It never says they don't though.

>It is much more likely that the passage in LOTR refers to the darkness emanating from the Balrog filling the chamber. This would be consistent with other evil creatures in this world, of whom darkness emanates and envelops those around them.

No other creatures have their darkness described as wings. Whenever other creatures are mentioned to have wings (like dragons) they're still assumed to have wings.

If you said "mental health comes before internet points" sure maybe but you said "YOUR mental health blah blah blah." Big difference.

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Because LOTR isn't the first time Balrogs are mentioned, and in no other instance in the legendarium do they have wings, much less wings so big as to cover the entire surface of a wide chamber of Moria.

It would have been very advantageous for Balrogs to have flight, yet they never fly. It is much more likely that the passage in LOTR refers to the darkness emanating from the Balrog filling the chamber. This would be consistent with other evil creatures in this world, of whom darkness emanates and envelops those around them.

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I'm saying you did the right thing

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So the evidence against Balrogs not having wings that they're specifically stated to have is that they sometimes fall (after being injured or being in an enclosed space)?

Plus, if it's unclear, then why do you assume that they don't in spite of contrary evidence that they do?

I’d watch that story if it was made into a movie.

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What do you mean? Balrogs have wings in the books and movies.

It did. I displayed it for everyone to see. My whole process. Where did you get confused?

Thanks I hate it

Says the one posting for upvotes lol what hahahaha