Just throwing it out there cos one night as a kid I distinctly recall some shadowy-ass humanoid thing standing in my room next to my bunk bed and the next second it was my fucken dad standing there. Also please note that my opinion on balrog wings is that Peter Jackson’s version looked better with wings than without, and if we’re going purely off the book’s descriptions a balrog would actually be something like this:
And on god that was the fucken thing in my room minus the fire n shit. Idk if it was just cos I was a kid and being fucking insane, but it seems too vivid to be the product of hallucinatory shit.