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Old 01-24-2002, 03:23 PM   #1
Keeper of Dol Guldur
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The Eye The WitchKing and Gothmog

I just finished reading "bye bye balrogs" and I couldn't help but think of the lesser balrogs everyone is talking about. Think about it, Sauron works pretty similarly to his old master Morgoth. Sauron has nine ringwraiths, yes, but it is a known fact that those wraithes had control of lesser wraithes, like Frodo would have become. So as I've said in "Seven Thains of Morgoth", Morgoth had seven. But Tolkiens writings referred to hundreds (vaguely or not so vaguely). Why then, couldn't Morgoth have seven captains-the balrogs, a mouth of Sauron lieutenant of Angband type guy, ruling in a tower nearer to the action-Thu (Sauron), and hundreds of lesser balrogs, not unlike the Witch-king's lesser wraithes. Only on a bigger scale, just like how Sauron's empire is pretty much a toned down remake of Morgoth's (you've gotta stick with what works). By the way, if someone has already suggested this, sorry. Anyway, to show it in organized format for rank-

Dark Lord=Morgoth/Sauron
the Black Hand=Thu, the mouth of Sauron
Black Captain/most powerful general=
Gothmog lord of balrogs, Witchking
lord of Nazgul
Elite guys=Balrogs, Nazgul
lesser elite=hosts of balrogs, wraithes
and wights
As for the fell rider of Utumno, Idon't
think Sauron did much twisting of elves
outside his own tower.
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