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n. 1 (cx fantasy English) A fiery demonic creature. 2 # (''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth'') a terrible creature "of fire and shadow"
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Balrogs are fictional creatures who appear in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Such creatures first appeared in print in his novel The Lord of the Rings, where the Fellowship of the Ring encounter one known as Durin's Bane in the Mines of Moria. Balrogs figured in Tolkien's earlier writings that appeared posthumously in The Silmarillion and other books.
Balrogs are described as tall and menacing with the ability to shroud themselves in fire, darkness, and shadow. They frequently appeared armed with fiery whips "of many thongs", and occasionally used long swords. In Tolkien's later conception, they could not be readily vanquished—a certain stature was required by the would-be hero. Only dragons rivalled their capacity for ferocity and destruction, and during the First Age of Middle-earth, they were among the most feared of Morgoth's forces.
Balrog, known in Japan as or M. Bison, also known as Boxer, is a character from the Street Fighter fighting game series.
A Balrog is a demon from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the inspiration for many other demons in fiction.
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Usage examples of "balrog".
Dreadful among these spirits were the Valaraukar, the scourges of fire that in Middle-earth were called the Balrogs, demons of terror.
Far beneath the rained halls of Angband, in vaults to which the Valar in the haste of their assault had not descended, Balrogs lurked still, awaiting ever the return of their Lord.
Thither, as was earlier told, Ungoliant had fled from the whips of the Balrogs, and there she dwelt a while, filling the ravines with her deadly gloom, and there still, when she had passed away, her foul offspring lurked and wove their evil nets.
Then suddenly Morgoth sent forth great rivers of flame that ran down swifter than Balrogs from Thangorodrim, and poured over all the plain.
And because of the strength and height of the Shadowy Mountains, which withstood the torrent of fire, and by the valour of the Elves and the Men of the North, which neither Orc nor Balrog could yet overcome, Hithlum remained unconquered, a threat upon the flank of Morgoth's attack.
There came wolves, and wolfriders, and there came Balrogs, and dragons, and Glaurung father of dragons.
Yet neither by wolf, nor by Balrog, nor by Dragon, would Morgoth have achieved his end, but for the treachery of Men.
Of the deeds of desperate valour there done, by the chieftains of the noble houses and their warriors, and not least by Tuor, much is told in The Fall of Gondolin: of the battle of Ecthelion of the Fountain with Gothmog Lord of Balrogs in the very square of the King, where each slew the other, and of the defence of the tower of Turgon by the people of his household, until the tower was overthrown.
Many are the songs that have been sung of the duel of Glorfindel with the Balrog upon a pinnacle of rock in that high place.
The Balrogs were destroyed, save some few that fled and hid themselves in caverns inaccessible at the roots of the earth.
Valaraukar 'Demons of Might' (singular Valarauko), Quenya form corresponding to Sindarin Balrog.
The original stem was bal-, preserved in Sindarin Balan, plural Belain, the Valar, and in Balrog.
Utumno, Sindarin Udûn (Gandalf in Mordor named the Balrog 'Flame of Udûn'), a name afterwards used of the deep dale in Moria between the Morannon and the Isenmouths.
While passing through the mines of Moria, the company is threatened by a Balrog, a terrifying creature of flame and shadow.
While fighting the Balrog, Gandalf and the creature plunge into a deep abyss and are both thought killed.