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.

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Easy, depends on the tone. If it’s supposed to be grounded and realistic with speculative evolution elements- probably not.

    If it’s rule of cool, yeah sure.