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But it seems that Morgoth, Sauron, and their associated Maiar could lose this ability: Morgoth, for example, was unable to heal his burns from the or wounds from and the eagle Thorondor; and Sauron lost his ability to assume a fair-seeming form after his physical body was destroyed in the downfall of.

8 "The Stairs of Cirith Ungol"• 10 "The Black Gate Opens"• , Appendix B, "The Great Years"• An early list of names described Balrog as "an Orc-word with no pure equivalent in of : 'borrowed Malaroko-' ".

In , they also used black axes and maces.

" The battle chapter ends with "an elegiac lay", in which Tolkien has a of Rohan : "We heard of the horns in the hills ringing, the swords shining in the South-kingdom.

3 "The Muster of Rohan"• According to Peter Jackson, Gothmog's affliction is an elephantiasis-type disease; he dubbed him "the Elephant Man Orc".

Variant forms of the latter include Nalkarauke and Valkarauke.

by , , April 02, 2004• The Elf Ecthelion leads the charge against the Orcs, and fights Gothmog, the greatest Balrog; they wound each other and both fall into the king's fountain in Gondolin; both drown.

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in the hour of their wrath".

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It survived the defeat of in the , escaping to hide beneath the.