I've tried very hard not to and keep failing to not mention a certain Trilogy, written by a certain Prof, from a certain famous English Uni - so here's somewhere I (and others) can go to avoid digressing too much elsewhere...
This is an outpost of Arda so to speak, where Elves are nowhere near as nasty as some creatures (though those are rumoured to have been Elves to start with, but that's another story
) and Dwarves still have trouble dating, but don't talk about that at all and just go off and work out their frustrations on a Cave Troll (possibly from Koom Valley?)
So anyway - let's start the ball rolling in case no one else wants to and ask the eternally thorny question -
Can Balrogs fly?
*put's hard hat on and retreats behind the nearest boulder... or is it?*
Is the "eh?" about the Balrog question or why this thread is here in the 1st place Bouncy?
For the more serious Tolkien 'lorists' this is a matter of passionate and often vicious dispute so I thought perhaps it might be interesting to have a more relaxed debate on here as we do tend to have more robust and ironic attitudes to grown people arguing about whether something that can only exist in fiction did or didn't have wings (that worked).... 
