Quote from USA Today

[emplynx]

I don't know if this should be on the movie board or here so I will post it here...

USA Today did a story on HP and LotR.
They made a chart compairing Harry and Frodo's stories.
Here is a quote:
"Most unusual creature--The Balrog, a 40-foot-tall winged demon whose skin emits fire and smoke"
How about that!

[ryan]

Is it having wings really /that/ important? I mean come on, leave /something/ to the imagination :)

[Ñólendil]

That the fire and smoke came from his skin, or that it was 40 feet tall (I find that unlikely, considering the Valar were not that high in humanoid form) is really speculation. Unless, that is, the article was referring to Peter Jackson's Balrog. They probably couldn't have made it sound very strange if they hadn't been specific, though.

[Bjarki]

It makes you wonder how a 40 foot Balrog (wings or no wings) managed to squeeze its way around the passageways of Moria - or how it even got in there in the first place!

[Captain Stern]

He smashed his way through everywhere silly :p

[samwise of the shire]

40 foot high is COOL and anyway I think the dwarves made the halls bigger then they needed it to be just because they like doing that. I mean Smaug was probably 60 feet long and maybe some 14 feet wide and he oculd fit through ALL the halls of Erebor save for the one passage, and Moria was considered the wonder of the known world so I think that a Balrog could get in and out of the passages. And if he could'nt he'd just back up and run.