O Sujo de Sangue disse:
Eita. Que absurdo é esse? Balrogs eram Maia. Pra matar um só o Glorfindel deu mó trampo, assim como Gandalf, mesmo usando o Narya.
Tuor era um homem. Onde, obra de Tolkien, ele matou 5 balrogs?
Eita nóis, que exagero.
Onde? HoMe 2: The Book of Lost Tales, part 2 - III: The Fall of Gondolin (o negrito é meu):
"(...) and upon them rode the Balrogs in
hundreds; and these were the most dire of all those
monsters which Melko
devised against Gondolin. (...)"
"(...) The early conception of the Balrogs makes them less terrible, and certainly more destructible, than they afterwards became: they existed in 'hundreds' (p. 170),* and were slain by Tuor and the Gondothlim in large numbers: thus five fell before Tuor's great axe Dramborleg, three before Ecthelion's sword, and two score were slain by the warriors of the king's house. The Balrogs are '
demons of power' (p. 181); they are capable of pain and fear (p. 194); they are attired in iron armour (pp. 181, 194), and they have whips of flame (a character they never lost) and claws of steel (pp. 169, 179). (...)"
Isso foi rejeitado posteriormente por Tolkien, que tornou os balrogs Maiar.
Mas está aí: quando os balrogs eram "demônios"
criados por Melkor, Tuor matou sim 5 deles no ataque à Gondolin (algo que seria completamente inverossímil na versão tardia do Silma publicado).