# LOTR: Did the Balrogs enter Middle Earth as monstrous demons?

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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** middle-earth, books-writing-myths
**Created:** [August 18, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-did-the-balrogs-enter-middle-earth-as-monstrous-demons/949062 "2021-08-18T03:54:15Z")
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### Author: ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-did-the-balrogs-enter-middle-earth-as-monstrous-demons/949062/52 "2021-08-22T18:03:46Z")

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If you’d just said this

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> A new thread is probably best

you wouldn’t have needed to say everything else just to say this

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> And this thread is already complicated enough as it is in trying to discuss Tolkien.

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