In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.

  • early_riser@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 hours ago

    l’ll just say that if I, as a worldbuilder, were creating a race of lizardfolk they would not have mammary glands. They would also not be too anthropomorphic. It would ruin the reason I like coming up with alien races, to solve ergonomics problems that their unique anatomy and lifestyle present.