Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-30561367-20170625114615/@comment-34030170-20191001171215

73.197.22.191 wrote: Tuor killed 5 balrogs and 3 "orc lords" in the first Age during the Fall of Gondolin. So Men can kill Balrogs, we've got that in the canon.

I think Balrogs should be harder than the Hill Troll Chieftain, but not absolutely impossible, and one variation should spawn through a certain ritual in Utumno and the other in "The Roots of the Mountain" dimension from the Endorsed suggestion of that name. Ah, Tuor and the Balrogs. Those were the days. Back when Men were Men and Elves were Elves, Balrogs were hundreds and Melkor was Melko. Wait a minute...

Tuor only killed those Balrogs because that was an early draft of the Fall of Gondolin; Balrogs were many, and hardly as fearsome as they became later in Tolkien's life. It doesn't work to integrate that information with later canon where there were at most 7 Balrogs, which would mean Tuor and Ecthelion alone kill more Balrogs than there are, not even taking Gothmog into account.

Also, necroposting is generally looked down upon, unless there's some kind of exception with Endorsed suggestions.