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Catfishperson wrote:

Equites wrote:

LordArvedui wrote: Yeah Uruks ran from a few horsemen, and three hunters. No way they'd fight a balrog, and wants and Hurons are literally super ultra weak to fire. Elves on the other hand are proven to have fought and even kill some. Indeed! Take "yellow-haired Glorfindel, chief of the House of the Golden Flower of Gondolin," who fought a Balrog alone and "fell to ruin in the abyss" along with his foe (The Silmarillion​, 252). It is also likely that Feanor, probably the most poweful Elven warrior to have ever existed, slew at least one Balrog before Gothmog's host overwhelmed him.

First, we have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Feanor slew a Balrog, that is a completely baseless claim.

We know that two of the mightiest elven warriors of the FA fought and killed balrogs (and died), for the sake of buying other elves time to flee. It is on this that you base your assumption that all late TA Warriors of Lindon would attempt to fight a Balrog should they encounter one, correct? That is ridiculous. Although some of the greater elves (Elrond, Glorfindel, Cirdan) might stand a chance, there is absolutely no way that an average TA elven warrior could hope to slay a balrog. For him to try would mean either that he really, really wanted to die, or that he was really, really stupid. I said that Feanor slaying a Balrog was "likely". In addition, I wasn't saying anything about what TA units could kill a Balrog. My intention was to provide historical perspective.